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TIL Tide detergent is the most shoplifted product in America. The Tide black market is so pervasive that it can be exchanged directly for drugs, and has earned the nickname “Liquid Gold”

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v1QB7 TIL that the missing mass in the universe is in the "Warm hot intergalactic medium"
E16jP TIL that the human body, if eaten, would be 81,500 calories. Based on the recommend daily intake of 2,500 calories, one average human body would feed one person for about one month.
e0LJk TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates.
AD4an TIL that there are 150,000 gas stations in the United States
6EX1w TIL emperor Hirohito offered to order all the Japanese to convert to Christianity to end the imperial religion, but general MacArthur refused, saying it would be wrong to force a whole nation to convert.