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TIL a handful of McDonald’s ketchup packets a day WILL give you enough vitamin C to keep you from contracting scurvy

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bew7 TIL that HBO may reveal the ending to the Game of Thrones series before the last book comes out due to scheduling commitments
kJG1d TIL a French occultist built a device to test the hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate.
wN0P TIL of Karl Patterson Schmidt, an herpetologist (amphibian expert) who was fatally bitten by a boomslang snake and, knowing he would die, created a scientific account of his own dying process by keeping track of his symptoms right until the very end of his life.
a9Ly TIL that US businesses and individuals so frequently mistake New Mexico as a foreign country or a part of Mexico, that New Mexico Magazine has a regular column documenting such incidents.
7W8L TIL the USA exported $124,021,998 worth of dairy cow semen in 2011.