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TIL raw carrots may be as addictive as cigarettes.

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rNOBW TIL every five seconds between lightning and thunder is about a mile of distance; it’s not true that each second between lightning and thunder means the storm is one mile away
ANdwn TIL in 2010, then stripper Bryan Hawn attempted to raise a 6-week old hyena, Jake, in a 1 bedroom apartment in Miami. This continued for 11 months, until Hawn was forced to re-home the hyena after it bit a friend, destroyed his plumbing, pooped everywhere, and broke his arm. They remain close.
78kOr TIL that between 15% and 30% of people have the photic sneeze reflex, which causes those afflicted to sneeze at the sun, sometimes multiple times in a row
78egx TIL from 1887 to 1950, meteorologists in the US were forbidden from using the word “tornado” in their forecasts. Experts at the time thought doing so would create mass panic.
pGYG TIL that the city of Kennesaw, Georgia has a law that all families must own a gun.