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TIL that loofahs come from plants and are related to cucumbers and watermelon.

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Eyw7 TIL that Bill Cosby had a really hard opinion on racism
jdNX TIL a marketer for Kraft Foods rotated their square Shreddies cereal 45 degrees, and re-marketed them as the new “Diamond Shreddies”. The new product showed a large increase in sales and test groups even reported a difference in flavor.
781EM TIL Napoleon, despite being constantly engaged in warfare for 2 decades, exhibited next to no signs of PTSD.
lbOr TIL There’s a species of marsupial that fucks to death. The Antechinus males all die en masse at the end of each mating season, after vigorous and sustained sexual encounters causes their bodies to disintegrate from stress.
oRyrL TIL that A man named Göran Kropp from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Mount Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.