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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL there's not one specific chemical that gives bacon its smell -- it's the combination of 150 different compounds that create the heavenly smell.

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TIL the Great Wall of China faces the wrong way and the arrow slits point towards China at that time in history From Tartaria

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TIL the blinding headaches I get have a name. Scintillating scotoma

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TIL bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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TIL Packaged ice without IPIA logo contains bacteria and mold

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TIL The Newspaper Clipping Generator

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TIL the Argonaut octopus has a long, detachable penis in order to mate with females that are five times bigger than itself. When a female swims by, the male Argonaut sends his penis off to swim to the female and mate with her.

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TIL Burning Man has its own enforcement group called "Black Rock Rangers"

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TIL PURL

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TIL President Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena named Bill, a gift from Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.

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Voyageur Airways = UN - A Canadian company based in North Bay

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TIL it takes 50 glasses of water to grow enough oranges to make one glass of orange juice.

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TIL: The Commerce Clause was used to justifiy federal authorty to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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TIL cheetahs may be the fastest land mammal in the world, but there’s one thing they can’t do: Roar.

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TIL about clipping sites and the influencer economy

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TIL the US FDA has a handbook of "levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans" that allows, for instance, an average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams and an average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in peanut butter.

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TIL numerals have their equivalent of capital and lower case.

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TIL about Therians

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TIL McDonald's attempted to make their menu more nutritious by designing broccoli that tasted like bubble gum. Kids were confused by the taste. The bubble gum flavored broccoli was a failure.

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TIL Allodoxaphobia is fear of different opinions

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Though the terms "Bible" and "Old Testament" are commonly used by non-Jews to describe Judaism's scriptures, the appropriate term is "Tanach," which is derived as an acronym from the Hebrew letters of its three components: Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim.

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TIL there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes.

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TIL the ways we used to calculate Pi

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Jews Have Such A Stranglehold On CA That They Can Reject A Curriculum For Not Being Sympathetic Enough Towards Them

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TIL Michelob Ultra is considered "healthy". Oh, Bud Light is not recovering from its Dylan Mulvaney moment.

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