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TIL that tomatoes contain similar protein structures to grass pollen, and thus can cause mouth irritation for hay-fever sufferers

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XEVZr TIL that the Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1932–1947 and from 1951 until his death in 1954 was Harry Baals
GYVJ5 TIL that the game, Borderlands 2 has an NPC character named Michael Mamaril, who offers out loot and weapons to players. This character was created as a tribute to a fan, Michael John Mamarial, who passed away from illness at the young age of 22.
x6P70 TIL the chromosomal cap, called telomere, grows shorter during cell division. Researchers also found out that most old people have shorter telomeres, that some telomeres had never shortened in those who lived past 100 years old, and that cancer cells don't die because their telomeres don't shorten.
DByp TIL There is an evil counterpart to Santa named Krampus. Krampus physically beats bad children before sacking them away to Hell.
5Ywwk TIL that in an unbelievable coincidence, the moon is exactly four hundred times smaller than the Sun but four hundred times closer to the Earth, so that both the Sun and the Moon appear to be precisely the same size in the sky - which gives us the phenomenon we call a total eclipse.