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TIL there's plastic in my blood. A lot of it.

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b6ed7 TILL of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. A genus of bacteria that hunts other bacteria
78EX TIL Ghengis Khan and his armies killed 9-11% of the entire world’s population
8aeWX TIL about the Batavia mutiny. The 340 survivors of a wreck were stranded on an island off the coast of Australia. A pharmacist leading the survivors had dozens massacred and by the time rescue arrived, there had been a battle for a makeshift fort built by survivors and over 100 people were dead
OGg97 TIL Hitler was a vegetarian and used gruesome descriptions of animal suffering at the dinner table to try to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat
b97x4 TIL that many popular rural-oriented television shows, including Lassie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Hee Haw, were all canceled in 1971 in what is known as the "Rural Purge"