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TIL Hello Kitty has a boyfriend named "Dear Daniel"

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QJpRe TIL that consuming too much lean protein can cause symptoms similar to broad malnutrition in a condition known as protein poisoning, or more colloquially called "rabbit poisoning" due to the first observed cases in frontiersmen who ate nothing but wild rabbits over the winter and developed symptoms.
8aZRK TIL Synchronized swimming is one of the world's worst sports for concussions--one coach estimated that 100% of his synchronized swimmers have sustained a concussion at some point during their career
6E8Lm TIL Army vet Gregory Holeman needed a ride to the hospital, but his care via the Veteran's Admin. didn't cover a 911 ambulance. He asked his sister to call a social worker but she misdialed and Jimmy John's answered; so JJ delivery driver Zack Hillmer (a U.S. Navy vet) drove him to the hospital.
7e9M TIL there is a church in Rome that is lined with skeletons and has a plaque in 3 languages that reads “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
M7Meb TIL: It is only 78 years since the first patient was treat with penicillin