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TIL Tobacco is fertilized with radioactive apatite, the radiation received from smoking a pack a day per year compares to receiving 2,000 modern chest x-rays a year.

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XVZ8 TIL, In 2007 Comcast installed software/equipment on its networks to selectively interfere with customers’ TCP/IP connections which throttled upstream p2p bandwidth
PxeZ TIL there are more variations in the game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
1Av4 TIL that there are official inspectors on the German Oktoberfest, checking if the beer is no more than 15mm below the mark after calming down for four minutes
xVYoD TIL of NOMV (Not one more vet), an NGO created to raise awareness of the very high suicide rate in veterinarians. They are not professionally trained in counselling, yet they must do it on a daily basis.
laVr TIL cats can become addicted to tuna and refuse to eat anything else. Veterinarians refer to these cats as ‘tuna junkies.’