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TIL that Australians are entitled by law to a repair/replace/refund on whatever they buy

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VMyLB TIL that tadpoles can eat rabbit food!
ne1vP Til that fingernails serve to enhance sensation and precise movements of the fingertips through the counter-pressure exerted on the pulp of the fingers by the nails.
neE9o TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.
9wAlm TIL about Hitomi Soga-Jenkins, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea with her mother in 1978. Her mother disappeared and was never seen again. She was given a Korean name and married an American defector. They had two daughters. The family returned to Japan in 2004 where they live today.
7eRM TIL that potatoes produce fruits that look like small green tomatoes. Don’t eat them, because they contain the neurotoxin solanine.