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TIL that over a million people signed an online petition to have Taco Bell change its name to Shit-My-Self

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epyn TIL that Dave Canterbury from Dual Survivor was fired from the show for completely lying about his military/survival experience.
mdNY TIL research has found that ecstasy has robust anticancer properties, particularly for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
nWJKo TIL that in 2023, scientists discovered the first known species in which chimerism determines sex - the yellow crazy ant. The ant is invasive in many countries and is capable of a completely new type of sexual reproduction having previously never been seen before.
G65N TIL that Japan sells its rare Kobe beef to just three restaurants in the United States so that “Kobe steak” that you just ate is probably fake
XGQP TIL in 1962 news channel NBC paid a West Berlin team 50,000DM ($150,000 today) to dig under the Berlin Wall, on the condition that NBC could film the escape. 29 East Germans managed to escape, and the resulting NBC film, The Tunnel, won 3 Emmies.