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TIL that 90% of Asian Americans are lactose intolerant

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pYO0O TIL humans don't have "wetness" receptors, our mind has to rely on context cues to detect liquids
mOMO TIL that the price of college textbooks has risen faster than the price of houses and inflation. AND there is a company that provides FREE online college textbooks that are almost identical to the ones we are paying top-dollar for.
ek16 TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times before you got pure alcohol.
ooLL TIL James Earl Jones used to freak out truck drivers by using his Darth Vader voice on the CB radio.
mxPey TIL about Han purple and Han blue. They are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments developed in China and used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han dynasty (circa 220 AD).