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TIL Hippos have red sweat that is frequently mistaken for blood

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ne0bG TIL It is not known how many US federal laws actually exist and are in force
XANk TIL that while investigating the Mississippi Burning case, authorities found the murdered bodies of 9 other black men unrelated to the 3 Civil Rights workers they were there to find.
BMVL TIL That before his television career. Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) sang opera professionally.
oRv0r TIL that blueberries weren’t commercially cultivated until the 1910’s, after a long history as a regional wild food
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.