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TIL in 2013, a U.K. inventor developed glow-in-the-dark ice cream made with the help of a protein extracted from jellyfish.

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xmlk TIL that Black Sabbath’s Cocaine budget in 1972 was $75,000. Roughly $350,000 today.
4XXE6 TIL that in 1980, Ronald Graham offered a prize of $100 for anyone who could solve his "Boolean Pythagorean Triples Problem." Last year, three computer scientists solved the puzzle, using a supercomputer over the course of 2 days, and came out with a proof that takes up 200TB of storage space.
gMx77 TIL A bizarre incident involving a fictitious write-in candidacy occurred in the small town of Picoazá, Ecuador in 1967. A company ran a series of campaign-themed advertisements for a foot powder called Pulvapies. Pulvapies ended up receiving the most votes in the election
QJlN6 TIL that, in 1964, a group of college students used garden spades to tunnel under the Berlin Wall into East Berlin, allowing 57 people to escape to the West. The students moved enough dirt to fill four eighteen-wheeler big rigs; one of them went on to design tunnels professionally.
jNmrM TIL an American Heart Association study found that not only did fish oil medication not reduce the risk of cardiac events, but also increased the risk of atrial fibrillation