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TIL, the eye drops can travel down your throat

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GALGJ TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 18th century, had a bizarre endless appetite. He ate a meal made for 15 people in one sitting, live puppies, cats and snakes and it got so bad while hospitalised he attempted to eat corpses from the morgue, patient's blood and a suspected one year old toddler
W7rD9 TIL that Phoenix’s new baseball expansion team held a “name the team” contest in 1998 with “Scorpions” as the overwhelming winner, but the team’s owner ignored the results and chose Diamondbacks.
oOAW TIL that nearly half (48%) of black women in the U.S. have genital herpes
4v8g TIL the U.S. dollar symbol “$” was created on April 1, 1778 by Oliver Pollock
e0LxL TIL prior to the Segway being unveiled in 2001 there were months of hype and fanciful predictions. Steve Jobs predicted future cities would be designed around it and others claimed it would be the most important invention since the computer. There was even speculation it was a teleportation pod.