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TIL that Estonia is one of the least religious countries in the world - only 18% believe in a god

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j0wQ TIL that red Solo cups are a common souvenir for foreigners to bring back from the USA.
v1Vk4 TIL when capuchin monkeys were taught to gamble, they made the same irrational decisions a human gambler would make as well, and the data generated by the capuchin monkeys make them statistically indistinguishable from most stock-market investors.
nOvW TIL Mary Toft managed to trick doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Mary did this by shoving the rabbits up her vagina before pushing them out and ‘birthing’ them.
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
LMZp TIL that theoretically, it would take 4 light years of worth of lead to stop a neutrino.