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TIL a bag of Skittles contains fifty percent of your daily recommended vitamin C.

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WkYYX TIL that a man called Gregory Nemitz claimed ownership of an asteroid months before NASA landed a probe in it. He then proceeded to issue NASA a US$ 20 parking ticket for landing there
78Jyr TIL that Jupiter has 95 moons (and counting). More are expected to be found as technology improves.
PKAg TIL, that Texas abolished all special last-meal requests after condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge last meal and did not eat any of it, saying he was not hungry.
QNyGL TIL that through a combination of using limes instead of lemons, long term storage of the juice, and exposure to copper the scurvy-prevention power of citrus juice was nullified and scurvy saw a resurgence in the arctic and antarctic explorations of the late 1800s and early 1900s
NX8bb TIL that researchers Limb, Limb, Limb, and Limb, in a study of doctors, figured out that doctors tend to choose a specialization that fit their surnames, alias nominative determinism (ie. Dr. Gore the surgeon)