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TIL cigarettes and tobacco use kill more Americans each year than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

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Z8rKa TIL about the Chinese town of Qiaotou, the 'button capital of the world'. Around 60% of the world's supply of clothing buttons are produced there, as well as 80% of the world's zippers
nWpWP TIL that if you have hazel, blue, or green eyes, and blonde or red hair, you have a higher chance of developing skin cancer.
ADx9a TIL of Pālītāṇā in India which, with a population of nearly 65,000, became the world’s first legally Vegetarian city in 2014.
QN0eE TIL The Great Mississippi Flood of 1993 was caused intentionally by the perpetrator James Robert Scott so that he could party free of his wife's interference!
gMQ8W TIL there are more tigers held captive in Texas than there are in the wild, in all of the world.