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TIL the U.S. has a PvP zone

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JGL4 TIL German archaeologists at Herxheim discovered 7,000 y/o mass graves containing at least 500 people who were ritually butchered and eaten by an unknown cannibalistic culture as part of a “…standard, repetitive, and strongly ritualised practice.”
X0PLR TIL Coca-Cola in the US is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, not sugar. I guess that accounts for most of the difference in taste between American and British (and other) Coke.
Z8AxD TIL of Thallium Poisoning. A chemical often used for rat poison that kills slow and painfully through potassium channels. One of the main treatments is to feed the patient Prussian Blue paint
pJrG TIL although the “ghost pepper,” rated at 1million Scoville heat units (SHUs) was the hottest pepper known to man, it was dethroned by the “Carolina Reaper,” rated up to 2.2million SHUs, in 2012.
vOoB TIL, that in 2001, two one-thousand-year-old Mississippian burial grounds were excavated in order to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter