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TIL Mel Blanc’s tombstone reads; “That’s all folks!”

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9jap TIL that there is a village in Brazil where the twinning rate is 10% compared to the global 0.4%. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted twin “studies” at Auschwitz, relocated to Southern Brazil in 1963 leading to a theory that he experimented on locals causing an abnormally high twin ratio.
E1Pvo TIL Marie Curie's century-old notebook is still radioactive and requires lead box. Any researchers who wish to view it are required to sign a liability waiver.
k89E TIL Australian Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes and lived unscathed. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card & won a $27k car. The news asked him to re-enact the scratch card moment so he bought another card & won a $250k jackpot.
yJQw TIL a company called Beyond Meat makes protein-rich and sustainable meat alternatives made entirely from plants. Bill Gates writes that he was “fooled by how real it tasted” and called it “a taste of the future of food”.
W0y9 TIL there is a banned Pepsi and Doritos commercial that used Doritos as communion wafers and Pepsi as sacramental wine