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TIL that the individual loops in Froot Loops are actually all the same flavor.

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j9xN TIL Professor Geoff Raisman spent 60 years of his life trying to find a cure for paralysis. He was fired twice but 9 months ago he helped paralysed Darek Fidyka walk again and believes his team’s work, and this breakthrough, will help many paralyzed people walk again in the near future.
4kLDw TIL that Lumiere, the candle from Beauty and the Beast, was voiced by Jerry Orbach, best known as Detective Lennie Briscoe from Law and Order. Orbach also had an IQ of 163 and skipped multiple grades as a student.
p8Ox8 TIL of the Schwerer Gustav, a German railway gun used against allied forces in WWII. It took a crew of 2000 men to lay track and to operate. Weighing in at over 1,300 tons and firing a 15000 lb shell, it is the largest gun ever used in combat.
JLlm TIL Ants cannot be seriously injured from impact with the ground after being dropped from any height, because they don’t have enough mass.
rl60 TIL the only American President to propose a guaranteed minimum income was a Republican, Richard Nixon.