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TIL that hot sand frying is a common culinary technique among street vendors in China and India for cooking chestnuts and peanuts.

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PvME TIL that Disney originally wanted ABBA to do the soundtrack for ‘The Lion King’. When ABBA said they weren’t available, they asked Elton John.
4XL8N TIL Neither John Denver, nor the writers of "Take Me Home, Country Road", had ever been to West Virginia. The road that inspired the song is actually in Maryland, and the landmarks mentioned in the lyrics more aptly describe the western region of Virginia.
WrZY TIL Valentine’s day remembers Saint Valentine, who was arrested, beaten by clubs, and beheaded for refusing to stop performing marriages
ADd9a TIL that irukandji jellyfish are both the smallest and one of the most venomous jellyfish in the world. There stings are so severe they can cause fatal brain hemorrhages and have been described as "100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula's".
geAb TIL that Target Canada was so poorly planned that Canadian consumers would continue to cross the border and shop at Target stores in the United States.