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TIL you have to run 4+ miles (6.8kms) to burn off the calories from a single can of Coke

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XJvE TIL that the chlorine smell is only activated when it is working. Therefore, the more intense the smell of chlorine at the pool, the more piss and feces there is.
d9xZ TIL Angelina Jolie purchased 60,000 hectares of Cambodian land that was infiltrated by poachers and turned it into a wildlife reserve. Some of the former poachers were employed as rangers.
nenKb TIL Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro is the Only Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipient and helped save 500 Marines at Guadalcanal. He died while getting the last Marines out. His last words were “Did they get off?” referring to the last of the Marines.
n9DP TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”
KO98Q TIL of the cult of Osiris. In the centuries before Jesus, an Egyptian cult emerged around a dying and rising god-made-mortal whose followers were baptized in order to redeem their sins.