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TIL that Lithium Chloride is the only other Chloride salt that tastes good.

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awZBM TIL that in 1921, a dog was put on trial for "catslaughter." He was represented by an actual lawyer, tried in an actual courtroom, in front of an actual judge, with an actual jury, who acquitted him for the crime.
9YPND TIL Jim Becker, a Packers fan hall-of-famer, routinely sold his blood to buy season tickets, which inadvertently saved his life when he was found to have Hemochromatosis, a genetic disorder that leads to toxic iron deposition in the body, and an early death. The only treatment is bloodletting.
R7Kg7 TIL Operation Condor was a US backed intelligence operation in South America to squash Soviet influence. More than 400,000 people were taken as prisoners and 60,000-80,000 were killed.
RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today
1aVmO TIL, in 1895 Argentina had the worlds highest GDP per capita, now sits at #55 being a case study worldwide.