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TIL there’s a lake in Senegal with bright pink water

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9YO0D TIL of oncolytic viruses, viruses that are genetically modified to target and kill cancer cells
Z8o1B TIL that in 2015, people who ate the Burger King Halloween Special had their poop turn bright green. This was due to the combination of food colourings in the burger's bun, which was black for the occasion.
Z8k0Y TIL That the bulk of quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary were contributed by a murderer who severed his own penis, using a knife he had employed in his work on the dictionary.
b6J1Z TIL Robert C. Campbell, a Captain in the British Army in WWI. Captured as a prisoner of war by Imperial Germany in 1914, he was held in captivity for two years before appealing to the Kaiser for a visit to his dying mother. He was allowed and voluntarily returned to POW Camp until the end of the War
9YWAB TIL of a tree that grows 40 different fruits