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TIL On average, Americans eat 90 acres of pizza per day.

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4XA9R TIL that scientists believe that people with blue eyes share a common ancestor. This eye colour was caused by a genetic mutation about 6000 to 10000 year ago most likely around the eastern Baltic Sea.
6geZ TIL a drug 400-6000 times stronger than morphine was the gas used in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002
69BGY TIL That a small cache of Roman coins were found in a ruined castle on Okinawa, Japan during an archaeological excavation in 2016, marking the first time Roman coins were found on the Japanese Islands. The coins depicted Emperor Constantine the Great, who ruled from 306 to 337 AD.
GjN5 TIL that US research shows that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s
Z474 TIL Venezuela’s prisons are so bad, that the inmates hold gladiatorial matches to settle disputes (Also, in that country, a person is murdered every 21 minutes. And in the last 15 years, there has been upwards of 200,000 murders)