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TIL That 68% of world's population (especially Asia & Africa) is lactose intolerant, which makes them incapable of digesting milk and its products

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5YMmR TIL of Tibs the Great, British Royal Mail's "Number One Cat", who kept Post Office headquarters mouse-free for 14 years. He was considered an official employee, and his low salary was the subject of debate in the House of Commons. When he died in 1964 several newspapers ran obituaries
pPgb TIL that the US and the USSR’s only direct military confrontation happened in October 1944, over the serbian town of Niš. It is considered top secret by both governments, and the exact number of casualties is unkown.
e0LLD TIL the unit of speed the knot, used extensively throughout the world in aviation, weather, and nautical contexts, comes from literal knots of the "common log" device. This 17th century device was a coil of rope with uniformly spaced knots, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie.
mxEKE TIL expensive weddings usually end in divorce.
PDWZ TIL North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier in 1865, was recovered by an FBI sting operation in 2003