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TIL that Shaquille O’Neal once put $70,000 on a credit card at Walmart and it was declined. American express suspected it was a fraudulent charge

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OOn6 TIL: Spontaneous auto-amputation is the process by which your body apmutates its own limb without any instance of external injury. Usually occurring in the small toe, a depression develops across fold of the toe and gradually progresses until the toe falls off. The condition is usually painless.
VBo1B TIL Ohio has a native species of cactus
9Y61D TIL ornithologist Ted Parker was able to identify over 4,000 bird species by their songs alone. He died in a plane crash at age 40 surveying the Ecuadorian forests.
0xDp TIL that “⸮” has been proposed as a punctuation mark to denote irony since the 1580s.
YpJ7B TIL that France enforced a ban on unlimited fizzy drinks in an effort to curb obesity