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TIL that Taco Bell partnered with a recycling company so you can ship back your empty hot sauce packets

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VBLX8 TIL that an Indian lawyer sued the Hindu god Rama over mistreatment of his wife Sita
8bJG TIL vampire bats’ saliva contains a protein that prevents their prey’s blood from clotting while the bat is drinking. This protein is called draculin.
Z8MWB TIL that as comedian Sam Kinison lay dying from injuries sustained from a drunk driver he began saying, to no one in particular, "I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die." He paused as if listening, then said,"But why?" He paused once more, saying, "Okay, okay, okay," and peacefully passing away.
yYxl TIL Stalin ordered in 1941 to open the tomb of the 14th century warlord Tamerlane. There was an inscription that read “Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”. Germany launched the invasion to the USSR that very day.
R5ZD6 TIL Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was published to little fanfare and was nearly forgotten. However by the 1960s it had had been analysed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities. It would serve as the basis for the movie 'Apocalypse Now', revered as a classic