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TIL that the yellow Planet Aid collection bins are a funding stream for a European cult.

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KOXj6 TIL the odds that we’re the only advanced species in the galaxy are one in 60 billion.
WkQBN TIL That the reason beans actually give you gas is because of a sugar found in beans called oligosaccharide that the body cannot fully break down. When these sugars move into the small intestine, they produce excess gas.
R5lna TIL: Marmite, the famous yeast spread has a crazy long shelf. You could eat Marmite that was made in 1945, and it would be protected. Its flavor would have changed. However, it would, in any case, taste great.
4o55 TIL during the Battle of the Bulge, American MPs trying to uncover German infiltrators would ask soldiers questions only a real American would know. General Omar Bradley was briefly detained after he “incorrectly” identified Springfield as the capital of Illinois. The MP thought it was Chicago.
AVeo TIL In the month before the ancient Olympics no wars were permitted so that spectators could travel from across Greece unharmed,