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TIL People typically fart about 13 to 21 times a day, amounting to ½ to 1½ quarts (0.5 to 1.5 liters), and some people fart more or less often.

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571p TIL On September 1918, a wounded German soldier limped into Private Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” said Tandey, “so I let him go.” Years later he discovered he had spared an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler.
kOP85 TIL in 1991, there were 60,000 jellyfish orbiting Earth.
awX69 TIL that bookworms are actually larvae of several different species of insects that have been known to bore into books looking for food.
JYkw1 TIL that wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom
J1nP8 TIL Chrissie Hynde wrote Don’t Get Me Wrong for John McEnroe, the tennis star.