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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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epwlJ TIL of William Augustus Bowles, a White Man Who Became A Part of the Muscogee People and Tried to Unite Native Tribes to Protect their Land Against US Invasions
XJ1R Today I learned that puppy breath smells good because their esophagus is still developing. You smell gas from the fresh food and sweet milk they just ate as opposed to bile or plaque in an adult dog’s breath.
jVEM TIL, 30 years ago on this day Sept. 26th 1983. A Russian Colonel named Stanislav Petrov, now known as The man who saved the world, averted WW3. A Soviet early warning satellite detected nuclear launches from the US. Petrov trusted his instincts that the computers were malfunctioning and did nothing.
ZpV6p TIL of the hexamyriapentachiliapentahectatriacontaheptagon, a polygon with 65,537 sides.
nW6P9 TIL that New Jersey and Rhode Island are the only 2 US states where you will not face criminal prosecution for incest