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TIL Best Buy only sells music on vinyl, apparently.

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vmk7 TIL that in 2015, a CT scan revealed that a 12th century Buddha statue was actually the casing for a mummified human being.
dDAg8 TIL of Radhanath Sickdhar, an Indian hired as a "computer" and who in 1852 determined through math that Mt. Everest was the tallest mountain in the world
e0oLb TIL That most animals bodies manufacture their own vitamin C. Only primates are unable to make our own. A few very rare species of birds and fish also lack this ability. The intake must be maintained through diet.
yVABa TIL in the Phoenix Metro area, the water utility still offers flood irrigation to homeowners. Twice per month, they will flood your entire property to 1 ft. deep for ~$0.0006/gal (homes with ~0.2 acre only pay $152.25/mo.)!
KGlR TIL over 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals. Antibiotics help them gain weight and stay healthy in overcrowded conditions, but also encourage antibiotic resistant bacteria that spread to workers and meat consumers. Pfizer has spent $900,000 fighting a bill to stop the practice.