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TIL that an award winning middle schoolers science project showed that on average 70% of the time ice from fast food restraunts is dirtier than toilet water

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xyw0 TIL an African man killed a lion with his bare hands before bleeding out and dying at a hospital after being attacked by hyenas
ANkbl TIL Europe's wine owes its existence to the grafting of vines to American grape root stock that weren't vulnerable to a species of aphid that was destined to wipe the industry out.
Z8oND TIL that a orchidectomy to check for cancer is completely unnecessary because the risk of a needle biopsy spreading cancer is completely theoretical and has never happened in the real word.
7rN0M TIL about The Bee Hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world
6mQ TIL that over the years scientists have discovered close to 2,000 “Bog Bodies”, incredibly preserved corpses found in peat bogs dating back to the Iron Age. The skin and organs are intact but the acid in the bog has dissolved all the bones.