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TIL the Codex seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an unknown, parallel world, written in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet

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BbZe TIL the voice of How It’s Made, Mark Tewksbury, was an Olympic swimmer who won gold in the 1992 Olympic backstroke.
Lk7jP TIL: Benfords law is a logarithmic graph that can be found anywhere in the world. The IRS even uses it to detect tax fraud.
lon7 TIL that if you draw a line around some Ants, they won’t cross it. Calcium Carbonate in chalk will puncture their skin and kill them with dehydration
4ZWw TIL of the Mast Brothers who repackaged regular chocolate bars and sold them as artisanal chocolate for $10
LkxL9 TIL the Bubonic plague, the cause of the Black Death, is still around. Congo, Madagascar and Peru have several cases a year. Isolated cases occur in the United States and China as well.