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TIL drown reefs are a thing caused when the water level is high enough that it blocks out too much sunlight needed by some coral species

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Wk6BX TIL A fictitious soft drink was created to prove the effectiveness of advertising on buses. So many people started demanding it that the drink actually starting being made by restaurants and soft drink companies
ep4rg TIL the Iroquois had many official Thanksgivings including Midwinter Thanksgiving, the Maple or Sugar-Making Thanksgiving, the Raspberry Thanksgiving, the Strawberry Thanksgiving, the Corn Planting, the Corn Hoeing, and the Complete Thanksgiving for the Harvest
OBNY TIL in 1973, New York Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson held a press conference to announce they had “traded lives.” This included the exchange of wives, children, and dogs.
5VBoB TIL 4 oz. (110 grams) of apricot kernels contain the lethal dosage of cyanide.
7bOb TIL of Johnathan R Davis who, in a well documented incident, single-handedly killed 11 armed bandits who ambushed him in 1854. He killed 7 while dual-wielding revolvers, and then finished the remaining 4 with a Bowie knife. He sustained only 2 slight flesh wounds.