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TIL one of the symptoms of hookworm disease is a desire to eat soil.

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7ryNP TIL in the book "Gulliver's Travels", the laputans, scientists who live on a magnetically levitating island, discovered two moons of Mars. This was 150 years before we actually discovered Mars had moons.
ZpXxD TIL the music video of Bombtrack (1991) by Rage Against the Machine supported Sendero Luminoso and its leader Abimael Guzman. The group sang in a cage, mimicking Guzman being filmed in a cage after being arrested
D1ErP TIL that the barge 'Akademik Lomonosov' in the Russian Far East is the world's first floating nuclear power station. It is also the world's northernmost nuclear power plant.
rRGNy TIL the creater of Ren & Stimpy was fired, in part, because his episodes became too offensive and un-airable for Nickelodeon
b9Dva TIL the surface of the Moon is actually dark, although compared to the night sky it appears very bright, with a reflectance just slightly higher than that of worn asphalt.