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TIL that the average age for the first sip of alcohol in Germany is 14.

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VB9Y0 TIL the speed of light is reducible to 1 Planck length / 1 Planck time. With all the varying measures of distance (feet, meters, miles, kilometers, astronomical units, light years) and all the different measures of time (…seconds, minutes, years, millennia), 1/1 is extremely satisfying!
XEpAX TIL: First game of chess against a computer was played in 1952 by Alan Turing. Because there were no computers powerful enough to actually run the program Alan Turing "ran" the program manually on a piece of paper
8aZRK TIL Synchronized swimming is one of the world's worst sports for concussions--one coach estimated that 100% of his synchronized swimmers have sustained a concussion at some point during their career
l7PQA Til of Robin Mahfood, who ran a charity called Food for the Poor that was charged millions for misleading donors and tax officials as well as raising prices for donated goods under his leadership
VB08Z TIL people aren't crazier in Florida. The stories are, at least in part, a result of Florida's arrest transparency laws.