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TIL, potential new antibiotics were discovered due to research into folklore that putting Russian brown frogs into a milk bucket would keep the milk from going sour.

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LQ56d TIL that Cape Disappointment was so named, by John Meares in 1788, who was searching for the mouth of the Columbia River as charted on Spanish maps. He had found the river but mistakenly thought the mouth was a bay, that the Spanish maps were wrong, and called it Deception Bay.
wLMg7 TIL That, "it is entirely possible for dogs and cats to survive and thrive on vegetarian diets". The diets must be nutritionally balanced (i.e. include synthetic taurine and adequate protein).
RoZ7 TIL the number of syllables per line in the lyrics of “Lateralus” by Tool correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci numbers.
yVRV TIL No child has ever gotten sick or died from tainted Halloween candy
kOOPe TIL that in 2013, an Oregon man on meth fought off 15 cops while masturbating