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TIL the red juice oozing out of your steak is not blood, it's myoglobin, a protein that’s found in muscle tissue

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DQKNP TIL the Beatles' last live concert was four years before their breakup, and they played for about 30 minutes.
9YDpM TIL: that France shares a border with Brazil.
epPXE TIL attendance at Detroit Tigers’ home games in 1976—excluding the home opener—was 33,649 in the 18 games started by Mark Fidrych and just 15,147 in games started by other pitchers, amounting to a 122.2 percent increase in attendance to watch the charismatic right-hander.
44Go TILcolombian druglord Carlos Ledger had so much money. He offered to pay Colombia’s external debt. Not once but twice.
GNm4 TIL a 125-lb woman won the Wing Bowl XXII eating contest (record 363 chicken wings). The next day, she won the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival (5 lbs of bacon in 3 min) AFTER winning the IHOP Pancake Bowl (59 pancakes). The next day, she conquered the Adam Emenecker Challenge by eating 5 lbs of barbecue.