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TIL Salmon are pink because of their primarily crustacean diet

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XjbX TIL the Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill in the cafeteria of UC Boulder is named after an infamous cannibal who ate his five companions during their journey across the Rockies in 1874. Their slogan is, “Have a friend for lunch!”.
kJLJE TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo
D1NKv TIL 'God Save The Queen' by The Sex Pistols was set to be Number 1 in the UK Top 40 chart on the weekend of The Queen's Jubilee in 1977. The BBC and UK Charts Company fixed the sales and banned the song so that Rod Stewart would be number 1, denying the Sex Pistols the top spot.
loxyr TIL that Cement is the most widely used material in existence and is the second most consumed resource on earth, behind water.
xVVxw A person with normal clotting ability would have to lose nearly 40 percent of his blood immediately to die of blood loss.