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TIL American dislike bean-y taste of soymilk

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0wOLR TIL there is literally a language called "Karen" that is spoken by the seven million "Karen people" of Myanmar and Thailand
j684R TIL Leonhard Euler wrote 234 letters to 15 year old German Princess Friederike Charlotte over a period of two years in order to teach her math, physics, and sciences. These letters were later reprinted as a textbook for "every female academy in the kingdom"
VQRB TIL: That the odor you smell before it rains is ozone pulled from higher altitudes by the coming storm’s downdrafts.
yQkMw TIL the neighbor’s name in the show Doug on Nickelodeon, Mr. Dink, actually stood for the acronym Double Income No Kids.
Lkdxr TIL about the Holodomor (death inflicted by starvation) which refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians during 1932-1933 caused by soviet policies. Private farms were destroyed and were replaced by collectivized farms. We remember this event on the fourth Saturday of every November.