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TIL Spaghetto is what you call a single strand of spaghetti.

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aog0 TIL in 2005 Starbucks spent more on health insurance for its employees than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee.
XEZrD TIL of George R. Price, a population geneticist known for developing the most widely accepted mathematical interpretation of altruism. After realizing his equation implied that altruistic behavior serves an innate selfish purpose, Price became increasingly depressed and eventually committed suicide.
lojWK TIL, superfetation is the simultaneous occurrence of more than one stage of developing offspring in the same animal, essentially getting pregnant while already pregnant.
DQXYV TIL of Bird Island, a man-made platform off the coast of Namibia that serves as an avian breeding ground for the globally-isolated Cape Cormorant; as well as a renewable source of Guano (bird shit), which is used in fertilizer for it’s high nitrogen content.
oBNMr TIL that Norway has the most Winter Olympic medals of all time (329) with USA behind (282)