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TIL that the Dutch word for fun is ‘lol’.

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lwMB TIL corn flakes were invented to cure masturbation.
x6vek TIL that only 0.1% of paracetamol/acetaminophen overdoses end in death and it takes 4 to 18 days for death to occur.
PYELn TIL that Fema sometimes measures disasters impact using a thing called the waffle house index. This is because there are so many of them and they have the unique ability to operate completely off gas for power/heat/cook. So if the waffle house is closed then its tantamount to complete disaster!
KOJ6G TIL that one of the largest mammals to ever exist was an elephant-sized ground sloth
DQa5j TIL that during the 1980s, the Soviet Union conducted an experiment in which they used geese as guard animals for their missile bases. The geese were found to be better than dogs at detecting intruders because they were less easily distracted.