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TIL that dysentery is not one specific disease, but a manifestation of any of several gut infections (usually Shigella, Salmonella, C. diff).

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ANXNg TIL a man from New Jersey purchased a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite. His wife deemed it too costly and sent him back for a refund, as it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. The man used the cash to buy two lottery tickets and won $315.3 million.
xBE7 TIL that the most expensive part of farming salmon is feeding them a coloring pellet that does nothing except turn them pink
Bg0ne TIL the Las Vegas Sphere's theater screen required such high resolution that they made the largest commercially available sensor, a 316 megapixel camera capable of 18k resolution. The image on the screen is 16K driven by 25 synchronized 4K video servers, taking up to 60GB per second of footage.
Yaax TIL that two amazon booksellers using automatic algorithms to set their prices once each accidentally based their pricing on the other. The automatic programs created an upward spiral of competing prices that eventually topped $3 million for a textbook.
DvnP TIL that the emperor penguin can dive to a depth of 1,850 ft (565 m) - deeper than any other bird, and deeper than the operational range of most naval submarines