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TIL only 10% of men in the world are 6ft +. Even in the US only 15% are above it.

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4kymJ TIL the draining of Lake Agassiz 9,500 years ago may have raised sea levels up to 1M worldwide in a year, creating global flood myths.
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.
XKOP TIL tea bags were originally just intended to be packaged samples of tea, but buyers found it easier to leave it in the bag to brew.
ADJ4n TIL Bizarrely, the US has a Prohibition Party whose mascot is the dromedary and whose chairman is named Phil Collins
v7Lr TIL Universal Studios owns a phone number with a New York City area code that they use in movies to avoid using a “555” number.