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TIL about the oldest known written complaint in the world. Around 1750 BC a man in Babylon named Ea-nasir sold substandard copper ingots to a man named Nanni and treated Nanni's servant rudely. The tablet is one of several found in the same building, all of which are complaints about Ea-nasir.

TIL that Vatican City has the highest wine consumption per capita in the world. The average citizen consumes 76 bottles per year

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TIL After the US invasion of Kuwait in '91, American fast food restaurants became wildly popular and sprang up all across the country. Kuwait is currently the most obese nation on earth, with bariatric surgery being the most popular elective surgery in the nation.

Because “y” is sometimes considered a vowel.

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Early opponents of Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine worried it might turn people into cows.

Milk chocolate and breast milk are both one part fat to two parts sugar. Some scientists have suggested this might be why we like milk chocolate so much.

84% of any weight we lose is exhaled.

Mr. Stapler bracing himself for the pain https://t.co/idZcMBDGal

The total length of fungal root systems in the earth’s top ten centimetres is about the same as the radius of the Milky Way.

A new podcast is launched somewhere in the world every 30 seconds.

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Japan’s Mei University is the first in the world to offer a ‘ninja studies’ degree.