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TIL that sex selection drugs cause thousands of stillbirths in India every year and one in five women who take them have a stillbirth.

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d87EB TIL that Americans consume an average of 152 pounds of sugar a year each. If the population of the US is 328,000,000 people, that means that the US consumes 25,000,000 tons of sugar a year on average. This number does not include the amount of sugar exported in products to other countries.
N7dbb TIL of a French soldier called Tarrare, who could eat a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies. He would also sweat profusely and had an odor that was described as “fetid beyond all conception”.
nW5K9 TIL That for 40 years the Olympics included an arts competition: awarding medals for lyric and epic poetry
M70ja TIL the beloved Kraft Philadelphia Cheesecake Bars was discontinued in 2004 due to a struggle with manufacturing capabilities.
0xxj TIL Prior to Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin wrote incredibly freaky Science Fiction, including the very unsettling ‘Sandkings,’ first published in OMNI then later made into an Outer Limits episode.