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TIL Lufthansa is the world's largest purchaser of caviar, buying about 5% of world production.

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wLvDY TIL of Aimo Koivunen, who during WW2 became the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He entered into a state of delirium and became separated from his patrol for a week. In that time he was injured by a land mine, caught and ate a raw bird, and skied 400km.
9Y0XB TIL: The US recognizes the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, an international consensus. However, 10 individual US states passed bills "recognizing" the territory's claim to independence, but also 2 US states officially recognize the territory as Azerbaijani territory.
pYm58 TIL Partially because of the generation that grew up on Jurassic Park becoming Paleontologists in large numbers about one new species of dinosaur is discovered every week
Xe4R TIL there is a snail with iron armor.
4bK5 TIL there is an island so densley populated with snakes the Brazilian Navy had it quarantined and a biologist said when on the island “you are never more than 3 feet from death.” That island is called Snake Island.