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TIL that Tiki Torches were invented by Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a native Texan, not the Polynesians.

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pKB8 TIL customer service reps can see what you’re typing before you hit send.
Ae4o TIL given a choice between alcohol-soaked food and normal food, male fruit flies that have recently been sexually-rejected by females will consume four times more alcohol-soaked food than the males that mated successfully.
lXva TIL American law used to require the mainstream media to be honest
grKmX TIL whales sometimes fart. The bubbles that whale flatulence generates are about the size of a watermelon. The unpleasant odor of whale farts has been described by observers as "a combination of herring breath and the funk of rotten salad." Seals are also known to have particularly noisy farts.
Ypbyx TIL of Tio de Nadal; a Catalonian Christmas song about beating a log partly in a fireplace with a stick in hopes it would literally poop out gifts.