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wL9GP TIL if you allow bacteria like E. coli to grow in food, you can cook the E. coli out but you can't cook out all the toxins they leave behind, which make you horribly sick after consumption.
rBke TIL Bill Gates once released a jar full of mosquitos into the audience during a TED talk on malaria
dDWYr TIL that Licca-Chan is a doll considered to be the Japanese equivalent to Barbie, enjoying more success in Japan due to appealing to 'sensibilities' that Barbie didn't carry since 1967
oADA TIL toddlers in China wear ‘split pants’ or 'crotchless pants’ so they can urinate and defecate in public places with ease.
ANa94 TIL The fold of skin forming an open pouch on the lower posterior part of the cat external ear is called Henry's pocket