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TIL That the same bacterium that is used to make blue cheese is also responsible for foot odour and also attracts mosquitoes

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N7Ob TIL That the small amount of toothpaste you use to brush your teeth with is called a “nurdle.”
kJdBW TIL that Lacrosse's origins trace back to Indigenous North Americans; YSK that it held cultural significance in addition to sport
9K1m TIL 118 people were charged after 9/11 with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs when a computer failure caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center allowed unlimited access to money
4XgYX TIL about the Controversy surrounding the Four Color Theorem which states that every map can be colored using only four different colors. The remarkable theorem is the first that had to be proved using computer-assistance.
lgaA TIL that along with being accused of cannibalism, early Christians in the Roman Empire were considered atheists because they denied all the other gods