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TIL that an arm and a leg are worth $323,099 on average in the USA.

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6Ej6w TIL that sarcasm is illegal in North Korea
loagA TIL soaps have been made for millennia. Alongside making fire and cooking food, turning oils and fats into soap is one of the oldest and simplest chemical reactions known to humankind. It is believed that the first soaps were accidentally made by fat dripping into the ashes of cooking fires.
NwbE TIL wearing green on St Patricks Day is symbolic of Irish Catholics but Irish Protestants wear orange
l78a5 TIL Quaternary Twins are when two babies are both cousins and genetically siblings. This happens when two identical sisters have children with two identical brothers.
worxM TIL the The Mission: Impossible theme song doubles as a spy code, because the music mirrors the Morse Code for M (dash dash) I (dot dot)