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TIL Deer are omnivorous

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QYQX TIL: A woman with Type 1 diabetes underwent an islet cell transplant. Since the transplant, her glucose levels have remained at a healthy level, and she was taken off insulin and has no dietary restrictions. “She is like a nondiabetic person but requires antirejection drugs,”
XPj TIL that the USMC is investigating the use of drop pods from space to deploy to any place on earth.
YMJd TIL Nestlé is draining developing countries’ groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.
xGbb TIL that because copyrights cannot be infinite, Jack Valenti of the MPAA wanted copyrights extended to “forever less a day”
R5ZB7 TIL in 2004, Polaroid issued a statement advising people to do not actually shake your Polaroid pictures because shaking them would ruin them, shortly after the release of the song 'Hey Ya!' by OutKast and the song's lyrics "shake it like a Polaroid picture"