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TIL that looks are so important in elections that children have a great success rate of picking victors just from photos of the candidate's faces.

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Mem9K TIL about Venus' flower basket. In Japan this sponge is a symbol of eternal love as each basket commonly contains a pair of mated shrimp. It also creates glass fibre by extracting silica from sea water
7Dx TIL LSD can help cure alcoholism
rRrwe TIL Mayonnaise is the most frequently purchased condiment in the US, beating ketchup by $1.2 billion annual revenue.
0dGoj TIL about Ken Saro Wiwa, an activist and writer who protested against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. Shell is accused of being complicit in his arrest and subsequent execution.
nWrrP TIL about su filindeu, the worlds rarest pasta. Only 3 people in the world know how to make it.