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TIL the cereal Cookie Crisp was created by Purina, the pet food company.

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16DV7 TIL that Marsha M Linehan, the creator of Dialect Behavior Therapy (DBT) was once an institutionalized patient who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia beginning her "descent into hell". At 18 she could legally leave on her own and went on to be a professor in psychology, diagnosed with BPD.
orGE TIL A snail’s venom could make a pain-killer 1000x more powerful than Morphine. And it’s non-addictive
ADjmB TIL that a sheepherder in Wyoming built a cabin out of dinosaur bones he found on the ground, not knowing that’s what they were until a paleontologist stumbled upon the place in 1897.
mxgjE TIL the most fertile woman in history, a Mrs. Vassilyev, gave birth to 69 children
9VBM TIL peas are categorised as seeds, and the pea pod is a fruit.