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Today I learned that 1 billion people in the world suffer from sleep disordered breathing.

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oBpj8 TIL Mammoth Ivory trade is almost totally unregulated and undocumented, this is not easily distinguishable from elephant ivory and thus there is tangible risk of illegal international trade in elephant ivory being being deliberately mislabeling as mammoth ivory.
nddW TIL there was an engine used in certain tanks and airplanes that was started using a shotgun shell.
6kRQ TIL - 100% of Iceland’s population has the internet, the only country in the world.
KY1K9 TIL there is a neighborhood in the city of Cândido Godói, Brazil, where 1 in 10 births yields twins. This is an unusually high rate. Although the exact cause for this phenomenon is unclear, the population is largely descended from a city in Germany which also has a high rate of twin births.
ANWEB TIL wild blueberry farming in Maine traditionally involved burning the fields every year, a technique learned from the Passamaquoddy tribe, since most of the plant mass is underground