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TIL around 15% to 25% of people are likely to have athlete's foot at any one time. The infection can spread to other parts of the body and to other people.

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YMGB TIL in Korea, live baby octopus is served still wriggling on your plate - it is recommended that you chew it thoroughly before swallowing so that the tentacles don’t latch onto your throat while it goes down
D7aV TIL that Rick Moranis was fired from the set of The Breakfast Club after he kept playing the janitor as a goofy Russian character
oRaV8 TIL Michael Mastromarino, aka the Bone Snatcher, was a disgraced oral surgeon who made millions of dollars illegally harvesting & selling body parts from cadevers. It is estimated that more than 10,000 patients received his transplants. He went to prison where, ironically, he died from bone cancer.
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VMDAQ TIL the US Justice Department reached a settlement with BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But the settlement turned out to be tax-deductible, meaning that BP could write off $13+ billion of the penalty.