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TIL There are bugs that look exactly like leaves.

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GYOa1 TIL children and pregnant women will absorb more consumed lead (50% of volume) than a non-pregnant adult (5-10%) because children's and pregnant women's bodies have a higher demand for calcium (and Pb readily substitutes for Ca).
JYxOj TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the bridge of his nose in a duel over a mathematical formula.
pQpe TIL that Far Cry 4 had a hidden ending; at the beginning the main villain leaves, asking the player to stay. If they leave, it sets the events of the game in motion. If they stay for 15 minutes, the villains returns and they go off as friends to shoot some guns, cutting straight to the ending.
KOQla TIL That the 4 biggest US pizza chains (Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Papa Johns, Little Caesar’s) all but their cheese from one man, James Leprino. Leprino controls Leprino Foods, which supplies up to 85% of the US pizza market
1a5Nr TIL the reason we know what cyanide tastes like is because an Indian man, MP Prasad who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste. "Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, solving a long unanswered question.