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TIL When mother otters dive for food, they tie their babies into kelp to ensure that they will not float away

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bkZ9 TIL Sweden has virtually eradicated Salmonella
NXw06 TIL in mid-1843, writer Charles Dickens began to suffer from financial problems, and matters worsened when his publishers threatened to reduce his monthly income. To prevent this, Dickens’ spent 6 weeks obsessively writing a novella. The result? “A Christmas Carol” - which sold out in 3 days.
AEOa TIL 1.9 billion Coca Colas are sold per day. That’s over 74 million kgs of sugar/day just for the world’s Coke consumption.
kl17 TIL Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the man for whom the guillotine was named, was an opponent of the death penalty. His family was so embarrassed to have the guillotine named after them that when the French government refused to rename of the machine, they changed their family name instead.
4nma TIL that “Starbuck” is a famous Canadian bull, whose genome was so desirable that his sperm sold for $25 million during his life and he has more than 200,000 daughters