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TIL 25 to 30 Percent of People Sneeze When Eating Dark Chocolate

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OoPE7 TIL that 14 of the 60 residents of the village of New Rome, Ohio were police officers. The police department's only purpose was issuing traffic tickets, and they brought in around $400,000 a year, mostly by citing drivers for things such as improperly tinted windows. The town was dissolved in 2004.
GYW6Q TIL At no point in recorded history was there a discrepancy on whether the earth was flat or round. People accepted the earth as round as science evolved.
m1VMy TIL about the lioness Kamuniak, who over the course of her life adopted five little oryxes (a species of antelope), she even kept them safe from other predators
gD98 TIL of the FP-45 Liberator, an extremely cheap single shot pistol developed by the US military to be air dropped in occupied territories during WWII. It was intended for use by resistance forces fighting axis powers.
p0WO TIL The Ottoman Empire still existed when the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.