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TIL that there is an area where the Earth’s crust is missing, exposing the mantle

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97VM TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics
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mbAO TIL killing a panda can result in the death penalty in China
Eg9pP TIL about Arthur Whitfield, an English physician and pioneer of dermatology. Whitfield discovered that athlete's foot (tinea pedis) was caused by a fungus infection, and created a treatment for it called "Whitfield's ointment."
J19Dm TIL that when Death's-head hawkmoth caterpillars feed on tomato plants, their only food source, the plants release an airborne chemical that warns nearby plants of the impending danger. This causes tomato plants to release a toxin that makes them inedible to the caterpillars, starving them to death.