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TIL pickles are served with most meals because they serve as a palate cleanser.

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k6NB TIL a factory in Honduras forces its workers to wear diapers for the sake of efficiency.
ADJZw TIL scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that they return to their nests by counting their steps. The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest and got lost. This was because of the change in length of the legs.
l7XKA TIL Jelly Babies we’re originally marketed as ‘Unclaimed Babies’
VM97k TIL a field of seagrass converts carbon dioxide to oxygen at over 8x the rate of a forest the same size.
Zanv TIL that in 1879 cats were used to deliver mail in Belgium. It was unsuccessful.