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

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wmaP TIL according to recent research, 87.2% of employees want to leave their current jobs in 2014, and 52.6% said that it was because they did not trust their boss.
KX69 TIL that during the siege of Jerusalem in 1917, the British, in an effort to capture the city from an entrenched Ottoman garrison, started to airdrop cigarettes filled with large doses of Opium, hoping that the Ottomans would be too stoned to fight. It worked.
eE0g TIL the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in 1990. “In my opinion the assassination turned out well, considering who they gave the job to. In any event, it wasn’t our intention to cause a world war.”
GYR54 TIL that a pestilence very likely killed the Aztecs: within five years, 15 million people – 80% of the population – were wiped out in an epidemic named ‘cocoliztli’, meaning just pestilence
M7jXW TIL that several countries outside of the U.S call American football "Gridiron"