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TIL that Iranian government has more American PhD degree holder in ministerial/cabinet position than the United States government.

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xkXB TIL Rabbits can scream
NQX1 TIL That Vasalgel, the non-profit US FDA-conforming treatment to provide reversible, chemical male birth control, was rejected from crowdfunding on kickstarter for being ‘too medical’
v1yJ4 TIL that Michael Rockefeller, son of Senator Nelson Rockefeller and great-grandson of oil magnate John Rockefeller, was very likely eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, and it's speculated that Nelson's mother paid a private investigator $250,000 for recovering Michael's skull from the tribe.
D7xV TIL that during the 1904 Summer Olympics Marathon, a Cuban postman who arrived last minute came in 4th despite running in street clothes that he cut into shorts and falling ill after eating rotten apples during a break he took in an orchard.
aD6o TIL Dogfish Head makes beer recipes based upon the chemical analysis of residue found on pottery and drinking vessels from various archaeological sites.