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TIL the Founder of The North Face died of Hypothermia in Chile in 2015

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l7WbB TIL That the carrot was originally cultivated for its leaves and seeds. It comes in six or more colours, each with unique nutritional properties.
1aYp8 Today I learned about an Electric Eel named Miguel Wattson. Whenever he discharges a large enough jolt, a tweet will be automatically sent out to his own Twitter account @EelectricMiguel. He also powers the Christmas lights at the exhibit.
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WmwB TIL of Unit 731, a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation. A few of the experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out.
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