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TIL A one pound onion has 191 calories, a Blooming Onion from Outback Steakhouse has 1954 calories.

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R7WB7 TIL Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. She worked as a cook and presumed to have infected 51 people, three died. She refused to believe she carried the disease. Years after her first quarantine, she changed her name went back to being a cook.
d8rE7 TIL: When Dolly Parton first hosted an annual "Gay Day" at her theme park, Dollywood, the KKK and others threatened her over it. She still gets threats but this hasn't stopped the event.
KO4jJ TIL about the Canadian Rangers, a 5,000 strong wing of the Canadian military reserves made up mostly of First Nation personnel. They provide a military presence in the most remote Canadian regions, act as guides and scouts for the Army, and until 2018 were still issued WWII vintage rifles.
n6xd TIL that a MMA fighter drank psychedelic mushroom tea and proceeded to tear out his friends still beating heart
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