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TIL Cash On Delivery (C.O.D.) is still a thing

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jkNQ TIL the average meat eater will personally consume 7,000 animals in a lifetime
VMbm TIL that the Olympics asked for drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978, to perform at this year’s closing ceremony.
rNJn1 TIL that rockets are launched from near the equator because it gives them a large initial speed, helping reach space with less fuel. Over a 24-hour period, such places travel longer distances than places at higher latitudes, which means that they move faster and have more angular momentum.
GQgG TIL that Nickelodeon’s green slime earned its nickname “GAK” after the street name for heroine due to the crew of “Double Dare!”’s recreational drug usage.
MRPb TIL there are no vitamins with letters F-J because those letters were used for vitamins that were “reclassified over time, discarded as false leads, or renamed because of their relationship to vitamin B, which became a complex of vitamins.”