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TIL raw carrots may be as addictive as cigarettes.

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oRN47 TIL in 1943 two Germans were killed while mishandling ammo. The Nazis responded by rounding up 22 locals, forcing them to dig their own graves before execution. In a ploy to save them, Salvo D'Acquisto "confessed" to the crime. He was executed instead of the 22, saving their lives
WGGd TIL - That during the peak of Ebola news in 2014 people started to avoid Liberia airport in Costa Rica thinking that it was the country in Africa.
d84ZB TIL Simon. Simon was the ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service.
a8NnL TIL of a place called Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky
eplZ5 TIL Mowing your lawn every two weeks, instead of every week, increases bee populations by 30 percent.