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TIL potatoes have 48 chromosomes, instead of 46.

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VMeZ8 TIL in the Indian city of Gwalior, you can get a gun license by donating a few blankets to cows
pYNwO TIL That the singer of the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song has always been credited to the wrong person.
9YZgB TIL Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery in the American south by mailing himself to freedom. He had friends pack him into a small box, and ship him as cargo from Richmond to Philadelphia. He survived, and went on to work as a magician
PJ0L TIL that the amount of vasectomies increase as much as fifty percent leading up to March Madness, so men have an excuse to stay home and couch-ridden.
v1AwB TIL that NASA unofficially relabeled the size chart of a condom-like urination device used in spacesuits because astronauts refused to use size Small. "We changed the names to Large, Gigantic, and Humongous"