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TIL that Michigan produces both Sweet and Sour Crude Oil

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m1MmO TIL In Iceland, family names are not commonly used, instead the use of patronymics (or matronymics in recent years) are favored by law. A patronymic (or patronym) is based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (an avonymic), or earlier male ancestor.
6EXm TIL that termites will follow the ink from most ball point pens because it replicates a pheromone that they secrete in order to get back to their nest.
rRYNo TIL the CIA ran a LSD sex-house in San Francisco
DQPAg TIL amputees who experience Phantom Itching where their limb use to be often use a mirror and scratch the opposite limb to trick the brain into satisfying the urge.
W7OD4 TIL that the first time an asteroid's impact on Earth was predicted before it happened was in 2008.