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TIL in 2002, Tropicana aired a half-hour orange juice infomercial called "Breakfast Americana" on Lifetime, A&E, TLC and Discovery Channel. When it also aired on local CBS affiliates, some major markets drew higher ratings than NBA basketball and 'Everybody Loves Raymond'.

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x6blB TIL that some members of the Sama-Banjau ethnic group intentionally rupture their ear drums at a young age in order to improve their ability to dive & hunt at sea. This allows them to dive for extended periods of time between varying depths without worrying about pain from water pressure changes
dnlr TIL that “2009 tuna samples from sushi restaurants in New York City” showed that 5/9 restaurants were serving Escolar, a fish banned in Japan for its toxicity since 1977.
X0EAP TIL the first person to discover the effects of LSD took it by accident, and took it a second time to confirm the cause of the hallucinations
R5dbj TIL a pack of stray Chihuahuas terrorized Maryvale, AZ in 2014