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TIL there is a conspiracy theory that we are living in a parallel universe due to the spelling of the children’s books The Berenstain Bears

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XEkDX TIL it takes 7323 Litres (1611 Gallons) to produce 1 litre of Almond Milk, and 80% of the world's almonds are produced in California which has been in severe drought for most of the past decade.
Oon81 TIL Not being able to poop in public toilet is a condition called parcopresis.
PYP5L TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.
VLG8 TIL naked mole rats can move their front teeth independently of each other (like chopsticks), cannot get cancer, can run backwards as fast as they do forwards, and their skin cannot detect pain (even from acid burns).
lovDA TIL of the Nazino Affair, a brutal USSR plan in which 6,000 political prisoners and criminals were rounded up and deported to an isolated island in Western Siberia, surrounded by guards and left only with flour. The society soon descended into anarchy and cannibalism; 4,000 died after only a month.