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TIL that Austrian schools and kindergartens keep a stockpile of potassium iodide pills in case of a nuclear disaster

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Y6dA TIL that the ‘heroic,’ 11-year-old girl who supposedly shot and killed a cougar stalking her younger brother last year comes from a family of convicted poachers
b9Aga TIL that camels store upwards of 30kg of nutrient rich fat in their humps. During times of famine and drought, the fat is absorbed to nourish the camel and the hump actually goes limp like a deflated balloon when the fat is depleted.
M74Xm TIL that in September 2003, two cast members of the Canadian teen drama "15/Love" died in a car accident on the way to set. Their deaths were written into the series where they died in a plane crash on their way home from a tennis tournament.
XOnD TIL there’s a word for the “seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects”: resistentialism
dDjL7 TIL about Precordial catch syndrome, a phenomenon in which you get sporadic stabbing pains in the chest, which is harmless