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TIL that Mars Inc., (yes, the candy company) is the largest owner of stand-alone veterinary clinics in the United States

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pYvrG TIL: There is a museum of toilet in New Delhi named Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets. It features rare collection of toilets from 2500BC up to today and gives a view of evolution of toilet related social custom, sanitary habits and technology and shows how deep rooted a simple toilet is.
N9G6 TIL that after WWII, the Soviet Union presented a wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Ambassador Averell Harriman who hung it in his office. Seven years later, a routine inspection revealed the gift contained a bugging device the Soviets had used to spy on the ambassador.
M7Xga TIL: Helium is generated by radioactive decay, is a non-renewable resource, physically escapes into space, is used in applications such as MRIs, breathing mixtures and welding gas, and has no substitute.
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