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TIL Mike Tyson was arrested 38 times by the time he turned 13.

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9x1D TIL that the “crunch” of crisps is the result of a hundred or more tiny air bubbles being released at speeds of 300 meters per second… in other words, a crunch is a tiny sonic boom inside your mouth.
0wXmL TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
KYOE TIL farts smell worse in the shower because our nose works better in high heat and humidity.
ADyVd TIL: In 1457 a man and his pig was put on trial and the pig was sentenced to death in Savigny, France for eating a young boy. Three lawyers were present at the trial. Two for the prosecution, and one for the defense of the pig.
LyPm TIL with evidence suggesting habitation since 8000 BCE Byblos, Lebanon is considered the longest continuously inhabited city on the world.