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TIL of the Gastric Brooding Frog aka Platypus frog, that swallows its eggs and broods the young in its stomach, eventually giving birth through its mouth.

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9wMPr TIL that a consumer reports analysis in 2014 confirmed that 656 rice products had worrisome levels of arsenic exposure from brown and white rice, and that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a limit for total arsenic consumption in drinking water, but no such limits for food/other beverages
lo1RK TIL At Applebee’s, almost no actual cooking is done: premade food in plastic baggies is heated in microwaves and dumped onto plates.
LkeQZ TIL The band Alphaville ("Big in Japan", "Forever Young") is German.
Rdy7 TIL that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes arbitrated a land dispute between Argentina and Paraguay. He decided in favor of Paraguay, giving the country 60% of its current territory. Paraguay still honors Hayes, and there is a local soccer club named after him, Club Presidente Hayes.
N76MM TIL Facebook played a role in a modern genocide.