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TIL Tom Clancy sold his own name to Ubisoft in 2008 and now they completely own it for games and related products

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N7a9N Til there’s a company that will put your ashes into ammunition cartridges/shells
OG6PL TIL about the white-throated sparrow, where male and female birds each exist in two forms: a white morph and a tan morph. Tan morphs only mate with white morphs, creating four different groups of birds that each act like a distinct 'sex' - tan males, tan females, white males and white females.
xVO7 TIL only 58 people died from snake bites in Australia between 1979 and 2000 versus 46,000 per year in India.
epjVb TIL there was once a wager between Cleopatra and Mark Antony on who could create the most expensive feast. After Antony presented an extravagant meal, Cleopatra upped the stakes—she took a priceless pearl, dissolved it in vinegar, and drank it. Winning the bet in legendary fashion.
gr987 TIL During WW1 Sauerkraut was called liberty cabbage.