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TIL skin can turn orange from eating too many carrots

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0derN TIL that Jerome Kerviel was the world's most indebted man, owning $6.3 billion dollars to the Société Générale.
R7ya6 TIL The Fast and the Furious (2001) is not the first film about criminals and racing with the name "The Fast and the Furious".
yQvje TIL after losing a son and extreme financial hardships, the song "It Is Well With My Soul" was written by Spafford while on his way to meet his grieving wife as he passed by the area where his four daughters had recently died from a collision in the Atlantic Ocean.
0wlMM TIL Harry Patch, the last surviving combat soldier of WW1 to have fought in the trenches, died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day
LQA8P TIL a plant called b. fiolata can replicate the leaves of multiple nearby plants on a single vine by copying features such as leaf size, area, length, angle, color, and even spines