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TIL: Street food in Vietnam is so available, fast and cheap that international fast food chains like McDonald’s flopped after entering

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wLVjM TIL That so few People Attended Lee Harvey Oswald's Funeral, Reporters had to Act as Pallbearers.
PoGe TIL 70% of elite distance running races have been won by Kenyans from the Kalenjin community, who make up just 0.06% of the world’s population.
DQNvr TIL Ubisoft released a series of games for the Nintendo DS and Wii called "My Coach", meant to "developing projects that make people feel that playing games is worth their while, learn a new skill or improve their daily lives", according to the series producer Pauline Jacquey.
OoQ94 TIL: Switzerland has the 2nd highest ratio of gun owners in the world (1/4), but only .5 gun homicides per 100,000 compared to the U.S's 5 per 100,000.
KYZKB TIL during the 13th century eating breakfast was said to be one of six ways to commit the fifth deadly sin of gluttony; and throughout the middle ages it was common to eat two meals a day - a larger meal that might include meat and wine around 11am followed by a lighter meal at dusk.