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TIL that the United States consumes over 90% of the world’s stimulant drugs, and that there has been a 700% increase in the use of these drugs since 1990.

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4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.
v1jMD TIL Janusz Korczak ran a Jewish orphanage and, when the ~200 orphans were ordered to a death camp, he stayed with them until the end despite multiple opportunities to escape.
kRX5 TIL that to create cars suitable for animals to drive in Zootopia, Disney enlisted the former head of design at Ford
7rBZZ TIL a woman's clitoris actually looks kinda like a space penguin when the whole thing is properly imaged, and that father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud hated it, calling it an "infantile organ." And also that Freud invented the vaginal orgasm, which apparently is not actually a thing.
6EaMZ TIL that the St. Stephen's Green public park in Dublin, Ireland has a section of garden for the blind, with scented plants that can withstand handling and signs written in Braille.