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TIL Charles Darwin was known for his Excessive Flatulence

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XZQk TIL the Ginger Gold apple was an inadvertent result of Hurricane Camilla in 1969.
dl1r TIL that tears cried for different reasons have different structures which are visible when viewed under a microscope.
mxGRo TIL: Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher, deposited his book in the Artemisium which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
KYZr4 TIL of Claude Ruggieri who launched the first living animals into the air by rocket, returning them safely to earth by parachute. In 1830, French authorities stopped his attempt at the first human rocket flight when the test subject was found to be an 11 year old boy.
oRjg7 TIL not only is the USA the 3rd most populated country in the world, if you added an extra 1 BILLION PEOPLE to its population, it would still remain the 3rd most populated country in the world behind China and India.