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TIL that crab sticks are not made from crabs.
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TIL the body of famed Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca has never been found, despite years of searching.
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TIL that there is a genetic mutation which vastly reduces armpit odor. A mutation disabling the “ABCC11” gene changes the chemical structure of armpit sweat, inhibiting the action of skin bacteria. Notably, this mutation is mostly found in East Asian populations
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TIL in 1973, New York Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson held a press conference to announce they had “traded lives.” This included the exchange of wives, children, and dogs.
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TIL that Copenhagen's only ski hill, CopenHill, was built on top of one of the world's cleanest waste incineration plants
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TIL - When the phone was first invented, Alexander Bell insisted that saying "Ahoy" was the correct way of answering the phone.