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TIL Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox

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88Xb TIL that if you have a bone marrow transplant, your blood can have the donor’s DNA and your salival and hair DNA will be your own. It has caused people to be wrongly arrested based on DNA evidence.
XEeVX TIL before he was assassinated, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had plans to federalize his empire, creating the United States of Greater Austria.
NXdkb TIL Caesar Salad originated in the 1920s from Tijuana, Mexico!
Jmmm TIL that despite common misconception, Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, he only popularized it by inventing the ballcock
a8V10 TIL Some biochemical reactions in human cells would take up to 1 trillion years to complete naturally — about 100 times longer than the lifetime of the universe. Enzymes perform these reactions in 10 milliseconds.