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TIL Frankenberry stool is an officially recognized ailment that was caused by people ingesting 1970’s Frankenberry Cereal then pooping pink.

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8eE1P TIL Although both the Navy and the Marine Corps are regarded as separate branches of the military, the Marine Corps is technically a part of the U.S. Navy, ever since Congress placed the Marines under the Navy in 1834.
OG0ra TIL of the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter," a natural gas fire that burned for nearly 6 months in the Algerian desert. It rose between 450 ft (140m) and 800 ft (240m) high and burned over 550 million cubic feet of gas every day. It was witnessed by John Glenn while in orbital spaceflight.
v5kB TIL that in 1834 Mormon leader Joseph Smith desecrated an Indian grave mound and declared the bones were from Zelph a White Indian who worked for the great Prophet Onandagus. Smith and his buddies divided up the bones and they are now lost.
8aKab TIL about Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin who defected to the U.S. in 1967.
KOLQQ TIL the 2002 Canadian cartoon 'RoboRoach' (which followed the story of a cyborg cockroach) was inspired by the true story of cyborg cockroaches created by scientists at the University of Tokyo