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TIL ants don’t take fall damage

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p8wmO TIL Popeye eats spinach because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip.
ADmoB TIL that there are white rainb9ws that appear in fog.
lnba TIL: A Detroit musician living in poverty didn’t know that in South Africa, he was more popular than the Beatles.
7aBZ TIL… Dr. Pepper was not named after the creator but after the friend of the inventor. Also Dr. Pepper predates coke by one whole year!