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TIL that about 3% of Antarctic Ice is penguin urine!

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WPBX TIL, that for restaurants to get on a highway exit sign, they must operate continuously for 12 hours a day and six days per week. In addition, restaurants on the service signs must be within six miles of the highway, and offer 24 seats for patrons, a public bathroom, and a public telephone.
E1AJx TIL Hepatitis C is the most common cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. From it's discovery in 1989, it took less than 25 years to identify, model and create an oral treatment that can completely cure a person in 8-12 weeks. 1-2% of the world population has HepC. Most don't even know it.
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.
1ePD TIL a french mathematician the day before his duel published all his work because he didnt think he would survive. The next day he died at age 20 from a bullet to his gut.
jNK4v TIL Shrunken heads are made using only the (skin) off the head. Not the skull at all. They basically take the SKIN off the head and wrap it around a piece of wood, rock etc to keep the shape of the head.