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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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neo07 TIL that Ferdinand Porsche stole several design elements of Volkswagen Beetle from an Austrian engineer named Hans Ledwinka of Tatra, a Czech car company. Tatra took legal action, but Hitler invaded Austria, seized its factory, and banned the car. The case was settled by VW after the war.
d8jWr TIL of The Map That Named America. Martin Waldseemüller, the primary author of the 1507 map, used the term “America” for the fist time. In 1513, he had second thoughts on honoring Vespucci and used the term Terra Incognita (unknown land) instead of “America”.
a6vy TIL that the vehicles that rescued people from the Chernobyl disaster are now stored in a remote radioactive vehicle graveyard
KOopB TIL that in Kosovo the given name ‘Tonibler’ exists in honour of prime minister Tony Blair’s intervention in the 1999 war and many boys/men now are named Tonibler
mxpnx TIL, Hisashi Ouchi, whose chromosomes were literally destroyed due the extreme radiation, was kept alive, even though he wanted to die, due to his family not giving up. His heart stopped for 47 minutes.