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TIL that the first ingredient in nutella is sugar and that it in fact contains 50% sugar

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JdRj TIL when Mark Wahlberg was 16, “he was charged with attempted murder for beating a Vietnamese refugee with a metal hook, leaving the victim blind. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but served just 45 days.”
E1NZ7 TIL The communal chatter of snapping shrimp colonies on the ocean floor created enough white noise that the U.S. Navy successfully hid submarines near them during WWII, avoiding detection by underwater Japanese hydrophones.
4mRJ TIL skipping the microphone/menu and going straight to the first window at In-N-Out is referred to as a “Home Run”. Your reciept will mention the fact that you have scored a “Home Run”. I found this out first hand by mistake today.
7rXPP TIL: That only in 1992 we confirmed there are planets beyond our solar system.
QBXk TIL Illegally smuggling toilets out of Canada and into the United States is an actual thing. Toilets in Canada are 3.5gal per flush and we’re made illegal by the EPA for water conservation.