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TIL that the maximum recommended consumption for Monster Energy Drink is 16oz in Australia but 48oz in the USA

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5YbLr TIL: In some Hispanic cultures their version of the tooth fairy is a rat called "Ratón Pérez" or El Ratón de Los Dientes
9YDgD TIL that Southwest China has a "cliff village", 800 meters above the ground. The only way to the outside world from the village was to climb down 17 rattan ladders, among which were two linked vertical rattan ladders 100 meters long.
KOR8a TIL that there’s actually 14 non-quadrilateral flags still in use today
95dB TIL there have been an estimated 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro by the United States, including poisoned cigars, infected scuba equipment, a pen rigged with a hypodermic needle containing poison, etc. He stated “if surviving assassination attempts was an Olympic event, I’d win gold”
rjAx TIL of Paraprosdokian, a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that forces the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example being, “On the other hand, you have different fingers”