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TIL that the Mars company makes more money from selling pet care than it does from selling food to humans.

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KOaMa TIL that, over the last 30 years, investing in LEGO sets have had 11% better returns than gold, stocks, or bonds.
g1g9 TIL that a lovestruck 13 year old girl of Houston, Texas attempted to drive all the way(with her mothers car) to her 12 year old lover she met in Xbox Live, who just happened to live in Kentucky. She was stopped at Tenesssee before she could get to her “boyfriend’s” place.
PDLE TIL the Hollywood Walk of Fame star for Muhammad Ali is the only one that’s placed on a wall and not the ground, because Ali “did not want the name of Muhammad to be stepped on”
Nb18 TIL lighter skin and hair pigments in early Eurasian humans may have been due to interbreeding with neanderthals
M7bA0 TIL one of Robert MacNaughton's auditions for E.T. was at Harrison Ford's house because Ford & Melissa Mathison (who wrote the script) were together, and his kids Ben & Willard played Dungeons & Dragons. The audition entailed all of them playing D&D together. He won the role of older brother Michael