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TIL that the Guinness World Records no longer recognize the fattest animal as a record in order to prevent compulsive overeating.

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Lk1Nv TIL the rarest blood type on Earth is RHnull with only 43 people reported on Earth with that blood type.
wLw9Y TIL of Detroit’s Eight-mile wall built in 1941 to separate separate black & white communities. It still stands to this day.
pYZye TIL about John Birges Sr., who decided to recuperate his heavy gambling losses by planting a bomb in Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino to extort $10 million in 1980. The FBI ultimately failed to defuse the bomb “unlike any we’d seen before” and it exploded 34 hours later.
dDXVK TIL that Dr. Pepper came out a year before Coca Cola
AxOl TIL scientists have been working on a mosquito-killing laser that can kill up to 100 mosquitos a second. The system can even distinguish gender and species by calculating the speed at which their wings beat.