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TIL that Sharknado has a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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OG7k4 TIL of the Koryo burger, a well known item on the inflight catering of Air Koryo, a north Korean airline. The "mystery meat" burger is served with cheese, cabbage and a brown sauce, cold to passengers. Vegetarians are offered the burger bun with extra tomato slices.
B80e TIL roses produce fruit.
QJrgX TIL- 7-up originally contained Lithium
oBgDA TIL Mandrakes are real. In one superstition, people who pull up the root will be condemned to hell. The mandrake root would scream as it was pulled from the ground, killing anyone who heard it. In the past, people tied the roots to animals and then used the animals to pull the roots from the soil.
Q6d6 TIL about Tarrare, a slender French man who lived in the 1700s. He had a bizarrely insatiable appetite which could never be satisfied. While under medical observation, he would eat everything he could find like cats, snakes and corpses. He was even suspected of eating a toddler.