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TIL that TVs used to end broadcasting and go static at midnight

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Y7KAB TIL about the St. Patrick's Battalion, a unit in the Mexican American war on the Mexican side. Made up largely of Irish Catholics, it contained a number of other Catholics from around Europe, and elsewhere, as well. Led by Irishman John Riley, the unit had ~700 men at its height.
Ypdkd TIL that when you eat a lot of green vegetables, some chlorophyll remains intact and when they pass through blood vessels near the surface of your skin, they engage in photosynthesis and you produce ATP (obviously in very small , but still!)
kN75 TIL that Alexithymia, the inability to identify and describe your own emotions, affects roughly 10% of the general population.
X0kbP TiL about a spider whose venom can make your penis fall off
GYgpg TIL in 2014, a stalker trespassed on Keanu Reeves' home. Keanu calmly talked to the stalker and called the police, who arrived and arrested her. Three days later, a second stalker made her way into his home, took a shower in his bathroom and swam naked in his pool.