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TIL that while Australia might have all kinds of deadly animals, the entire continent has been rabies free since 2010.

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5Y60D TIL generic "elevator" music is called muzak after the American brand that dominated the market for background music in retail and public places since the 1930s.
Xvj8 TIL The Nation of Islam states that White People are “Devils” created by a scientist named Yakub on the Greek Island of Patmos.
JZm8 TIL that tomatoes, although botanically a fruit, are legally a vegetable as a result of the 1893 Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden, as “they are seen as vegetables because they are usually eaten as a main course instead of being eaten as a dessert.”
ADo8x TIL of the Giant Pyrosome; a “free-floating, colonial tunicate that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter”
GkjN TIL the US pays on average 15% more for sugar than the rest of the world do to the Farm Bill. This may also be the reason soft drinks switched over to High Fructose Corn Syrup.