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TIL Indians are the world’s biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey.

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DQ4YJ TIL that 50% of European men share DNA with King Tut, but only 1% of Egyptian men do.
kLG4 TIL Isla Kock also known as the “The Bitch of Buchenwald” was a Nazi who was known for her sadistic abusive methods towards her prisoners in which she often killed them and had them skinned alive to use to make items such as Lamp Shades. The Purse she proudly carried around was made from human skin
neGZb TIL there’s a 2nd Yosemite 15 miles away but hidden by a dam for the last 100 years
l7OE7 TIL that if you plant an apple seed, there’s only a 1/80,000 chance the tree it becomes will produce the same kind of apple you took it from - much less even produce apples desirable for eating.
wEQP TIL that early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.