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TIL - 0.1% of males in Greenland are circumsized.

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9nNp TIL that Under Armour, an American company, uses a non-American spelling of “armour” (with a “u”) not because it has ties to somewhere like the UK or Canada but because the founder was “trying to get a cool toll-free phone number.”
OGMKL TIL that in Italy it’s considered rude to pour wine by gripping the body of the bottle, palm up. It’s called “the traitor’s way” because it’s how people in 15-16th centuries would covertly slip poison into the wine from a signet “poison ring”. The correct way is to hold the very end of the bottle.
BbLy TIL 90% of college students from China in the US cheat to get admitted
69PMX TIL that cough drops have Directions for use. Cough drops are intended to be used once every 2 hours, and dissolved slowly in mouth.
lV4A TIL an average of 38 children die each year in the U.S from heat stroke as a result of being forgotten about in the back seat of a vehicle on a summer day. 755 children have needlessly died this way since 1990.