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TIL Eggs Benedict Was Invented As A Hangover Cure

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KO0LJ TIL Johnny Cash started a forest fire in California that burned over 500 acres. When questioned by a judge, he said, “I didn't do it, my truck did, and it's dead, so you can't question it”.
Oo1Ma TIL about the "whale pump". Whales tend to defecate in surface waters; additionally the feces tend to float. Whales feed at deeper levels of the ocean where krill is found. The fecal action of whales thus reverses the usual flow of nutrients of the ocean's "biological pump"
m18Rp TIL that smokers with hepatitis may lose their taste for smoking
DGAV TIL A French bee-keeper trained his bees to consume cannabis resin, thereby producing all-natural (rather than infused) cannabis honey.
NXr9P TIL that in China, there is a problem with "gutter oil", which refers to recycled oil and is often oil that is actually scooped out of sewers and taken to a refinement facility. The oil then ends up sold at a discounted price, often to restaurants, and is visually very similar to new oil.