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TIL: There are cochineal bugs in our food and drink

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Pl6w TIL Jack Kerouac once got so drunk, he enlisted in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard on the same day.
78JkO TIL that Elizabeth “Plinky” Toepperwein was America’s only female professional trapshooter and beat Annie Oakley's accuracy record—she peeled potatoes with bullets and shot cigarettes out of her husband’s mouth.
b9xLa TIL of Hope, an albino turtle that has her heart exposed due to a hole in her chest. The case is so rare that there is no existing name for this medical condition
5Ywnr TIL: A British Navy Stoker managed to escape from a sinking submarine and get to the surface over a 100 feet up. He then swam five miles to land.
dDAlZ TIL that if you search October 1582 in your calendar, you’ll see days missing.