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TIL The Average Potato Has Lost 100% of its Vitamin A Since 1951

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WkrXd TIL Tolar, NM has the distinction of being the only town in the USA to be bombed out of existence in World War II. Not that it was a large town at the time. The explosion from an accidental railroad disaster left a crater about 20-feet deep and 60-feet wide - the town was pretty much obliterated.
7ygP TIL humans are the only mammal species that have completely lost their penis bone
k5Ed TIL that prior to Chris Farley’s death, there were plans to make a Matt Foley movie (SNL motivational speaker who “lived in a van down by the river”) with David Spade in a supporting role
R7eGw TIL about Beauty, a Bald Eagle whose beak was shot off by a hunter. Bird sanctuary workers 3D-printed a prosthetic beak for her until her actual beak grew back.
lj8A TIL there exists a waterfall in Antarctica that has a water source completely devoid of oxygen containing a high amount of Iron & Sodium. When the water is finally exposed to air as it flows out of the glacier, it rusts coloring the water blood red making it look like the glacier is bleeding!