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TIL opossums have the most nipples of any animal.

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LQwKP TIL that when you use cane sugar(sucrose) to make coca-cola it breaks down into fructose and glucose before you ever drink it. These are the same ingredients as in high fructose corn syrup.
BrWx TIL that Return of the King is the movie with the highest kill count ever.
N7GE6 TIL that the second largest human brain on record belongs to 19th century American doctor, lawyer, schoolmaster, photographer, inventor, carpet designer, phrenologist, and philologist Edward H. Rulloff, who was also a criminal and serial killer.
R57Ja TIL the RAF and USAAF dropped 3,316,000 magnesium incendiary bombs on Munich alone during WWII, 4 bombs for every inhabitant.
rRPB1 TIL that German chemist Friedrich Wöhler was the first person to synthesize an organic compound in 1828 by accidentally crystalizing urea. This refuted a widespread belief (vitalism) that organic compounds contained a mysterious, soul-like "vital spark" and could never be synthesized.