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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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PKAg TIL, that Texas abolished all special last-meal requests after condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge last meal and did not eat any of it, saying he was not hungry.
4kWmw TIL in 2023, Michael Oher, the basis of the film The Blind Side, sued his adopted family - the Touhys - for tricking him to sign a deal that paid them millions of dollars in royalties from the film while he received nothing. The Touhys terminated the conservatorship, which they were "happy to end".
KO6O4 TIL that just like humans, dogs have an oil on their bodies that converts to vitamin d when exposed to the sun. Unlike humans dogs cannot absorb this oil, and must instead invest it via licking and grooming.
b6BVp TIL that the surfing events of Paris 2024 Olympics will be host in Tahiti (French Polynesia), which is 15,716 km from Paris
QNJvk TIL that the US military developed nuclear warheads meant to destroy other incoming nuclear warheads. The small 150 lbs warhead would send a neutron flux that would disable any other incoming warhead. Essentially, they would nuke their airspace to prevent another explosion a thousand times larger.