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TIL most of the sodium in instant ramen is in the noodles not the flavor packet.

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Vorp TIL washoe the chimp (the first non-human taught sign language) became self-aware while staring into a mirror and then interacting with other chimps that she was not human
yW0l TIL the Aardvark is the lone species in its genus which is the lone genus in its family which is the lone family in its order.
YpkdA TIL that 500,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military since 1969
XEmY8 TIL in 2000, the Missouri chapter of the KKK won a court battle to allow them to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program. The state legislature promptly renamed the stretch of I-55 they were assigned to clean as the “Rosa Parks Highway”
nWrVo TIL that in the 1970s a person died due to gas in their colon exploded during colonoscopy with electrocautery. Colonic gas explosion is very rare these days, due to better bowel preparation (see the first citation for the fatal case study).