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TIL Originally all humans were lactose intolerant, and those who aren’t lactose intolerant are the ones with a mutation.

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QNbrE TIL it was said that Frederick the Great had a physical disgust of women. He once shocked a dinner party with an offensive rant against "ghastly women you smelled ten miles around". When he saw his wife for the first time in six years, he only told her: "Madame has become more stout" and then left.
YpR4x TIL On average, globally, pizza took longer to deliver than cocaine. 30% of people who had cocaine delivered said it arrived in less than 30 minutes, compared to 16 % who had pizza delivered in less than half an hour
ZNRG TIL that the world almost came to an end in 1983 when a malfunctioning Soviet satellite falsely reported multiple launches of American ICBMs to a Russian bunker. Citing a “funny feeling in my gut,” the bunker commander directly disobeyed military protocol by not ordering retaliatory strikes
R7yM6 TIL that Fidel Castro, aged 14, once wrote to Roosevelt to ask for $10.
X0VMP TIL that "for every increase of 100 meters (in elevation), suicide rates rise by 0.4 per 100,000 people"