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TIL China has successfully used snake oil as medicine due to the high levels of Omega-3 in some snakes

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VM1jp TIL Jeffery Dahmer was pulled over in 1978 on suspicion of DUI while trying to dispose of his first victim. A garbage bag containing the dismembered body was in plain view of the police officer. Dahmer talked his way out of trouble and was let go.
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KYK0w TIL that those bizarre Mentos commercials shown in the USA in the nineties, were all produced in Germany, where the candy comes from.
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