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TIL A group of feral cats is called a destruction

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ADJLd TIL In 1976 Matthew Adam Garber, the boy who played Micheal in Mary Poppins, died at the age of 21, from hepatitis that spread to his pancreas. There have always been rumors that Garber contracted the disease after unsafe drug use, but his family says it was from eating bad meat.
0weA1 TIL that cosmic dust, micro-meteor remnants from the birth of our solar system, falls all over the world at a rate of 4,000 tons annually. We literally eat it, inhale it and live in it every day.
b9aBp TIL that the Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of M&M’s is… five
dDAK9 TIL in 1923, as a result of hyperinflation in Germany, banknotes had lost so much value that they were used as wallpaper.
69GgQ TIL that in World War II and the Vietnam War, the US military issued “Life Barter Kits” to its pilots and paratroopers.