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TIL: Marmite, the famous yeast spread has a crazy long shelf. You could eat Marmite that was made in 1945, and it would be protected. Its flavor would have changed. However, it would, in any case, taste great.

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7bVL TIL of the Wolverine frog, a frog that breaks its own bones in order to project claws through its skin when threatened
b9Ey0 TIL that the worlds shortest world leader was President Benito Juárez of Mexico at only 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 meters) and the tallest was Maharana Pratap, King of Mewar in present day Rajasthan (a state in India), at 7 feet 5 inches (2.2 meters)
8e7D4 TIL Despite his popularity in the west, Kublai Khan is not as popular in Mongolia as his brother Ariq Böke. While Kublai ruled by adopting Chinese principles and ruled from a Chinese palace, Ariq Böke re-embraced Mongolian culture and ruled briefly from a yurt.
rRMno TIL the literal translation of “popcorn” into Persian is “Elephant’s Fart”
oaLA TIL In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined.