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TIL the five largest meat companies in the US dumped 48,229,609 pounds of toxic pollutants into waterways in 2014 according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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jomj TIL that each combination lock also has a counterclockwise combination opening the lock.
9A46 TIL Sir Ranulph Fiennes, has run 7 marathons, on 7 consecutive days, in 7 continents after a heart attack and bypass operation,. Has hacked off his own frostbitten fingers with a power tool, discovered the lost city of Ubar, & in his sixties reached the peak of Everest.
PYLKe TIL the fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.
l4QK TIL of the My Lai Massacre, where a company of American soldiers killed over 500 civilians of My Lai on March 16, 1968. The incident was covered up for over a year and only one man was convicted.
6EwBw TIL that cranberries are harvested on marshy ground usually near wetlands. They grow as long running vines.