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TIL Drew Carey tried to kill himself when he was 18 in Las Vegas. He was homeless, was selling his plasma for $40, and looked for spare change to buy boxed macaroni and cheese. “All I had was water, no butter. That is some bad macaroni and cheese.”

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5VLXR TIL that in 2013 a referendum was held in the Falkland Islands asking citizens to decide whether they supported the continuation of their status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom; 3 people out of 1516 voted no
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69mVX TIL That there have been some really bizarre reality TV concepts over the years, nobody was really interested in them though.
oRogK TIL that black/melanistic squirrels are extremely rare genetic morphs (1 in ~10,000 individuals) outside of Canada. Living in Canada and seeing black coats on many squirrels (in Ontario, nearly all of them), I've grown up thinking melanism in squirrels was an extremely common phenotype.
16RK8 TIL that in 2021 a woman in South Africa claimed to have given birth to 10 babies at once. A government inquiry found the claim to be untrue, but the news organisation who first reported the story has alleged that it was a cover-up. The woman has not been seen or heard from since.