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TIL that goldfish have teeth in the back of their throat

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R5bBj TIL that most Himalayan pink salt doesn’t come from the Himalayas. The salt is mined in Punjab , Pakistan.
epEBL TIL that Switzerland suffered casualties in WW2, despite being neutral. The US air force accidentally bombed a number of Swiss towns, thinking they were in Germany, and several aerial incidents took place against both Allied and Axis planes due to violating Swiss airspace.
grMJD TIL 19th century French utopian socialist Pierre Leroux advocated the system of Circulus, which proposed human excrement to be collected as a tax by the state to be reused as fertiliser
VRbB TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who found and shot John Wilkes Booth, was completely insane from handling mercury as a hatter; this led to him castrating himself with a pair of scissors.
mneM TIL having an orgasm can help a man’s body recover from illness, as the orgasm causes an increase in leukocytes, or natural killer cells, in a man’s blood.