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TIL that snail mucus is used as a cosmetic skin treatment.

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lbea TIL that California has a higher population than the entirety of Canada.
pYYvA TIL Kenneth Branagh is the only person to have ever been nominated for seven different Academy Award categories including director, actor, and adapted screenplay
JYORV TIL Michael Jordan wanted a sponsorship deal with Adidas but they thought he was too short. He signed with Nike instead and today his brand makes about $3 billion a year in sales, with $100 million going to Jordan.
Ba5r TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
yjZa TIL that the WWI race horse Man'O'War had such a powerful genome that 37 percent of race stakes winners in 1966 were his direct descendants