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TIL that a woman tried to sue Cap'n Crunch when she learned that Crunchberries were not real fruit.

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9ZrG TIL: It is illegal to boil Lobsters alive in New Zealand.
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v1KKD TIL an episode of Mythbusters where the myth of a sugary cereal's box being more healthy than the cereal itself was was tested but never aired. This was due to the fact that the lab mice that were fed the cereal box wound up eating each other during filming.
pdZG TIL Indians are the world’s biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey.
lo9Pr TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. A former member of the MOC, writes that "Sisters were to ask each person in danger whether they want a 'ticket to heaven' to lure them for consent and then baptize them.