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TIL People can keep their amputated limbs. A woman requested to keep her leg before being amputated due to cancer. Now she and her leg travel the world, posting photos of their adventures on Instagram.

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e0XM4 TIL Breyer’s can no longer call their product “Ice cream” because of the number of additives and the low amount of milk and cream. It is a “Frozen Dairy Dessert” or “Frozen Dessert”
PBEL TIL that both sides of the First Congo War ate pygmies “as though they were game animals.”
0dPoL TIL of the Challenger expedition which catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species. John Murray, who supervised the publication, described the report as "the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries"
OGlY1 TIL Americans pronounce the word “interesting” with four syllables, unlike the three in my country
R7ON6 TIL that platypuses lose their senses of sight, sound, and smell underwater, so they hunt prey using electroreception. Mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors in their bill allow them to use electrical impulses to locate objects in the deepest and darkest of waters.