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TIL the first crime in Antartica in almost 20 years occurred when a 54-year old engineer stabbed his co-worker over spoiling the endings of books he was reading

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WkxeB Til that an 8 year old named Gabi Mann befriended her local crows by giving them part of her school lunch every day, and in return, they have started leaving her gifts ranging from random shiny objects like broken glass to a lens cap that her mother had lost earlier that day
pYPQe TIL a 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale that's speculated to be "worth more than $100 million", one of the most valuable cars in the world, is on display in a huge Fort Lauderdale flea market that turns into a 13-screen drive-in at night named Swap Shop.
neYd9 TIL that tattoos can be non-vegan, because they use bone char, gelatin, glycerin and shellac in their inks.
99mr TIL Alaska has the highest botulism rate in the U.S. and one of the highest worldwide. According to the CDC, close to 40 percent of food-borne botulism cases reported in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000 (103 of 263) occurred in Alaska, one of the least populous states.
mkZv TIL when corn was first utilized by colonists and Europeans, they ignored the Native American’s process of first treating it with lime-water, which makes available the corn’s niacin to the body. As a result of their dependence on the crop, hundreds of thousands died of Pellagra, a niacin deficiency.