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

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6EeZX TIL about the Toba Catastrophe - the theory that 75,000 years ago, a massive volcano eruption reduced the human population to 3000, causing a genetic bottleneck that has reduced the genetic diversity in humans today.
8exLG TIL that Norm MacDonald, the comedian, did not found McDonald's as their names aren't even the same.
R7j64 TIL During Napoléon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, alcohol was not available per Egypt being an Islamic country. In lieu of alcohol, Bonaparte's troops resorted to trying hashish, which they found to their liking
D1roP TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!
bk6Z TIL that during WWI and WWII the US and British Navy used Dazzle Camouflage which centered around confusion over concealment and resulted in some funky looking ships