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TIL that Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything; the name originated when the founder sat at his kitchen table for hours streaming together nonsensical Scandinavian sounding words.

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rLEx TIL Vultures have stomach acid so corrosive, they can even digest anthrax.
XEVrP TIL that scientists have developed a solution to help plants grow in otherwise infertile too salty soils
JPm4 TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
YpmJr TIL about Brady Snakovsky, a 9 year old who was watching Live PD and noticed a K9 without a bulletproof vest on, so he made a go-fund-me with his mom to purchase a vest for the dog and instead raised over $80,000, which was used to create a legitimate charitable organization donating to police.
j69oE Today I learned that the clavicle (collarbone) is the first to ossify (harden into bone) at 5-7 weeks in utero, and the last to finish developing in the late teens to early 20s.