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TIL Points for Deer refer to the number of actual protrusions or “points” on a rack of antlers.

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X0ZLE TIL Before earning a living as a writer, Octavia E. Butler once worked as a potato chip inspector.
9WAM TIL In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were no longer able to support themselves, they were given a neurotoxic plant called “sardonic herb” and thrown off of a cliff. It is the source of the term “sardonic grin” because of the facial expression the plant caused following death.
QJ67L TIL that the "Candy bar protest", also known as "the 5 cent chocolate war", "the 5 cent war", and "the chocolate candy bar strike", was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents.
X6jP TIL German writer Ernst Jünger ran away at the age of 18, served both WW1 and WW2, earned the iron cross, hung out with Picasso and Cocteau, hated the nazis and did lots of drugs until he died 102 years old.
D1g9e TIL that Jackie Chan sings the Cantonese version of “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” on the DVD for the Disney movie Mulan