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TIL that Garfield was never meant to be funny.

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EJlx TIL that the homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum is so diluted that there would need to be 10 to the power of 320 more universes to simply have one molecule of the active substance (duck liver) in the final substance.
7rMdb TIL at any given time there are about 2000 thunderstorms around the globe producing approximately fifty lightning events per second.
eN1J TIL that the uncanny valley response likely evolved to keep us away from human corpses
dpRZ TIL To conceal where Genghis Khan was buried, escorting soldiers killed everyone they saw, then they killed the tomb-builders, then they killed each other.
OoYkg TIL of of Chloe Phillips-Harris, who was denied access to Kazakhstan in 2016 under the guise that New Zealand did not exist because the map in the detention room did not include it