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TIL that the Mars company does not approve of people deep frying their chocolate bars because “it does not fit the company’s promotion of healthy living”.

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WkOV9 TIL a cockroach can "karate kick" an emerald jewel wasp in the head. If not kicked away, a wasp injects venom into a roach's brain & midsection which paralyzes a roach's front legs & makes it a zombie to be led by its antennae; then it gets stuck with a wasp egg & eaten alive by wasp larvae.
Q4Dd TIL Roman sling bullets sometimes had things written on them, such as “Ouch!”, “Catch!” and “I seek Pompey’s asshole”
6En7W TIL about Martin Joe Laurello, aka Human Owl and Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head, a German-American man who could turn his head 180 degrees
kJ541 TIL During WW2 the USA developed grenades to match the size and weight of a baseball so that any young American man could throw a grenade with accuracy and distance.
awxx0 TIL that 1 in 4 Americans could not answer correctly that the Earth revolves around the sun (npr.org, 2014)