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TIL there is a hotel inside of the Toronto Blue Jays stadium

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dDpA9 TIL that pellagra, caused by niacin deficiency, was widespread among poor rural populations in 18th–20th century Europe and the American South who relied heavily on corn. Native Americans had solved the issue millennia earlier through nixtamalization—an alkaline treatment that makes niacin available
woVP1 TIL Humans swallow at between 500-700 times a day, around three times an hour during sleep, once per minute while awake and (obviously) even more during meals.
kOGKd TIL of a KFC knockoff in Bangkok that used Hitler's face instead of the colonel's for the logo
GAR45 TIL that the single largest dinosaur bone ever found is a 2.5 metre (8.2ft) long femur bone belonging to an Argentinosaurus that roamed the earth about 90 million years ago. The dinosaur’s total length would of been around 35 metres (115ft) and weighed in excess of 70 tonnes.
R5aZl TIL Henry Gray published the first edition of 'Gray's Anatomy', which covered 750 pages and contained 363 figures at the age of 31 years. At the age of 26, he obtained the Astley Cooper prize of three hundred guineas for a dissertation "On the structure and Use of Spleen."