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TIL immunization efforts have reduced polio cases by >99%. Pakistan accounts for 86% of the current cases

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0w7nL TIL: the popular Sriracha sauce in the US (in the green-capped bottle) tastes different because they have a different supplier of chile peppers. The owner sued the original supplier for $1 million claiming he overpaid. The farmer countersued and won $23.3 million and now makes his own sriracha.
8a4AG TIL Beluga Whales have squishy heads
jwln TIL that Salad Fingers animator David Firth had a satirical cartoon series removed from Newgrounds due to its lack of quality, this cartoon was later commissioned by the BBC for their website
lob0V TIL that Shakespeare's epitaph contains a curse for grave robbers.
W7JwA Til that Eratosthenes, the Greek philosopher who was the first known person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, died aged 82 by voluntarily starving himself to death because he was going blind