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TIL that 8.2% of Norwegians eat tacos every Friday night

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VMawB TIL that a French bacteriologist trying to use a virus to kill rabbits on his property accidentally wiped out over 90% of the rabbits in Western Europe. He was prosecuted and fined, but the French government later gave him a medal depicting a dead rabbit.
b9w5E TIL about a French chemist named Bertrand, who drank 5 grams of arsenic trioxide (a very poisonous substance) mixed with activated charcoal, just to demonstrate the adsorptive properties of activated charcoal and survived.
yVQK8 TIL there's a restaurant in Amsterdam called Ctaste where patrons dine in the dark and all the wait staff are blind.
yQDoV TIL that a spoonful of sugar stops hiccups.
X0ZeD TIL that 98-year-old retired Major League Baseball player Bobby Shantz is the last living person to have played for the Athletics when they were in Philadelphia, as well as the last living person to have played under legendary manager Connie Mack.