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TIL a majority of the World’s adults are lactose intolerant. Being able to digest milk puts you in the minority.

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j6Z7N TIL that Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Peter Cushing were all a part of London's "Ghost Club," which looked for scientific evidence of paranormal activity.
4Xkn6 TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?
9YpkX TIL A professor at Indiana University launched a system of gaining experience points through classwork instead of giving out traditional grades.
kJwOm TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.
rRR1y TIL many schools in Japan require students to have black hair. Those with other hair colors are often pressured to dye their hair by a rule intended to prohibit dying of hair.