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TIL That The Monarch is a Poisonous Butterfly

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69RMw TIL that Candles have been used for over 5,000 years, dating back to the ancient Egyptians who made candles from beeswax and tallow.
6ERPw TIL that in 1975, the FDA banned the sale of turtles with a shell less than four inches long. The CDC estimates that the ban averts 100,000 cases of Salmonella infections—salmonellosis—each year in US children.
4mN TIL Korean baseball teams are named after companies that own them, not regions (an example is Samsung Lions)
oRK5Y TIL that the Comic Sans font was directly inspired by the comics "Watchmen" and "The Dark Knight Returns." It was originally built for a user friendly version of Microsoft, codenamed Bob, and thus the creator used the comics he had on hand as inspiration to make the font appear light-hearted
4k6JX TIL medical students generally come from affluent backgrounds