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TIL that The Vatican declared capybara to be "fish" so Venezuelans could eat their meat during Lent

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VBl8k TIL that the founder of Lululemon specifically came up with a brand name that has three L’s because the sound does not exist in Japanese phonetics: "It's funny to watch them try and say it”
LkM0V TIL the "Come and take it" slogan was first used in the Battle of Thermopylae
PP4O TIL the only FDA approved manufacturer of coral snake antivenom in North America suddenly stopped producing it in 2003, leaving dwindling supplies that mostly expired in 2012. If you get bit by one now, chances are you are shit out of luck.
gMBN8 TIL that in 1916 soldiers with a femur fracture had an 80% chance of dying. The introduction of the Thomas Splint reversed this statistic, giving soldiers with the same injury an 80% survival rate by 1917.
wa6o TIL that losing an hour of sleep when daylight savings puts the clocks forward causes a 25% increase in heart attacks on the following Monday. They reduce by 21% when clocks go back.