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TIL Milk Duds are called “duds” because they wanted them to be perfectly round and that was found to be impossible.

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DOvP TIL Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.
VMPPp TIL - On a clear night humans can see the light from a candle burning 1.6 miles away
p81jA TIL the four-leaf clover symbol, usually associated with shamrocks and Irish culture, is actually depicting the common wood sorrel which isn't a species of clover at all!
5VlJr TIL: Charles Darwin spent 6 months in South America looking for a lesser rhea (an ostrich-like bird) only to have one served to him for dinner. Halfway through the meal, Darwin realized what he was eating, gathered the parts and sent them to England for taxidermy and formal classification.
LyVV TIL Smoking while driving is banned in North Korea on the grounds that a smoking driver cannot smell a problem with the car.