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TIL Dolphins seem to use toxic pufferfish to get high.
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TIL Golden rice is a variety of rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene. It is intended to be consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency each year is estimated to kill 670,000 children under the age of 5
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TIL 1967 Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident - On 16 March 1967, a red-hued UFO singlehandedly disabled and cut off radio communications of the entire Malmstrom AFB filled with Minuteman Nuclear ICBMs.
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TIL that termites - like mammalian ruminants - produce a lot of methane through their digestion process, but bacteria living in their nests filter and absorb a lot of it.
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TIL that the game Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism, and originally had two sets of rules, the other encouraging the sharing of prosperity
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TIL that two small lakes exist in Upstate New York that are essentially devoid of oxygen.