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TIL skin cancer is more common on the left side in Americans and on the right side in Australians

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MaYV TIL flour tortillas were invented by a Jewish sect living in Mexico (then a colony of New Spain) who considered corn to be non-kosher.
neJAG TIL that in Germany, and some other countries, there's no punishment for escaping prison. Their law consider it's a basic human instinct to want to escape, so no extra time is added to the initial sentence if no other laws are broken in order to escape.
Yoed TIL that the USDA deploys cyanide filled “trap” bombs on public land to kill feral dogs and coyotes.
1on8 TIL after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in a plane crash in 1950. Stalin’s son Vasily, who managed the team, covered up the disaster and replaced all the players to avoid his Fathers wrath. Stalin never noticed.
7vxP TIL that 80% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.