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TIL that there are 62 pieces of Lego for every person on Earth.

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wokOW TIL about the Loa Loa or eye worm due to worms occasionally migrating into the eye causing discomfort and anxiety
LkQnv TIL during the Cold War the Canadian government commissioned a "fruit machine" to detect homosexuality
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m1kVE TIL that American chemist Gilbert Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry every year from 1922 until 1946 but never won it. His death in 1946 may have been a suicide.