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TIL that human bites are one of the most dangerous animal bites in the world due to the bacteria in our mouths.

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KEA9 TIL that the official motto for the California Conservation Corps is “Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions…and more!”
78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
XE5Bj TIL that in 1914, a 9 year old Irish boy wrote to the British army, requesting to be sent to the front becuase he was good at riding his bicycle and becuase he would often win fights with lads twice as big.
4eBa TIL Nicotine is the tobacco plant’s evolutionary defence mechanism, which makes insects sick when they eat the plant, thus saving the plant from being eaten!
8a9b TIL that Johnny Cash was the first American to hear about Joseph Stalin’s death, while working as a decoder for the US Army