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TIL zebras and donkeys can breed resulting in a zonkey
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TIL the 1954 novel "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding is Stephen King's favorite book
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TIL that pickled ginger may be traditionally served with sushi due to its antiseptic and anti-nausea properties, which help counteract the consequences of eating spoiled food.
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TIL actor Dan Richter, the lead man-ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey", had the status of a “legal” drug addict in England, and injected a doctor-prescribed combination of heroin and cocaine up to 7 times daily. When he needed additional stimulation, he always had state-supplied crystal meth on hand
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TIL that the US wanted to switch completely to the metric system and is still going slowly towards it
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TIL a fully loaded C-130 Hercules can carry $2.4b in cash. In 2003, twenty-one shipments of American cash totaling 363 tonnes were flown into Iraq. $6.6b of that money is totally unaccounted for and could be the largest cash theft in American history.