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TIL dry roasted peanuts usually contain more than double the salt content of salted peanuts

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vPm4x TIL about Leo, a cat adopted by employees at a Home Depot to aid in rodent control who now lives at the store. Leo The Cat has become a local and internet celebrity after being showered with gifts, food and toys by the community and can be found patrolling the store for pests or sleeping on aisle 45
M7K7a TIL, a man was wrongfully declared dead, so he attended his own funeral, tried to get arrested, tried to get elected and more. it took 19 years for him to be declared alive
O5pg TIL that Octopus wrestling was a popular sport in the 1960s.
a8b7M TIL the US government detected Chinese nuclear testing in US airspace during the Cold War
R7MY8 TIL of thioacetone, a chemical compound so pungent that when it was accidentally released in 1889, people started vomiting, suffered nausea and even unconsciousness up to 750 metres (0.47 miles) away.