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TIL every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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Yp0j7 TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors
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e8P6 TIL that a cross between a zebra and a donkey can be called a zonkey, zebronkey, zedonk, or zebadonk.
Oo8A4 TIL of ball lightning. Not taken seriously by scientists until the 60s , it is said to be a ball of light seen during a thunderstorm that appear to move on their own. it is a rare and unexplained phenomenon and has only recently been studied by scientists.
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