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TIL Oranges are the worlds healthiest food: High concentration of vitamin C, oranges make the perfect snack and add a special tang to many recipes

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Bd6L TIL 58 year old General (retired) Stanley A. McChrystal runs 7-8 miles a day, eats 1 meal a day, and sleeps just 4 hours a night.
GYGkN TIL that Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was born with strabismus (crossed eyes). When her husband became president, she considered getting them surgically corrected, but he told her "Did I not see you and fall in love with you with these same eyes? I like them just as they are."
BrRND TIL That Octopus And Squid Possess The Super-Power To Rewrite Their RNA. Researchers say that this type of RNA editing can allow a single octopus gene to produce an array of various proteins from the same DNA.
KYvLE TIL That the LAPD has more helicopters than dogs.
b9yo9 TIL four new species of epaulette walking sharks were recently discovered off the coast of Australia and Papua New Guinea which are able to travel short distances over land because of their ability to walk using their pectoral fins and live in low to no oxygen conditions for extended periods of time