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TIL In 1965, The World Health Organisation stopped calling Down Syndrome “mongoloids” due to a delegate from Mongolia

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jNLQQ TIL the wattana panich in Bangkok restaurant is serving a Thai beef noodle brew that has been simmering for 45 years.
80MV TIL that modern U.S swinging started in World War II amongst fighter pilots who shared wives as a bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the 2/3 of husbands who survived would look after the widows
NrjM TIL The tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa) was built without sewage, so all poop must be trucked out.
a8EYb TIL that a genetic mutation made the Arabian Peninsula population lactose tolerent and able to survive on camel milk and live in arid climate. This was a factor in early Muslims' victories over the Persian and Roman empires as Arab fighters could launch raids before retreating deep into the desert
G8jG TIL there is a 10 ft (3m) wall in Lima, Peru, that separates one of the wealthiest neighborhoods from one of the poorest.