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TIL that women on birth control pills blink 32% more often than other women.

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x6agb TIL that some mountain climbers carry their own waste in their backpacks.
bA4 TIL that the real Zorro was an Irish genius who strangled himself at the stake before the fires could reach him.
e0AAD TIL about David Vetter, a boy lived almost his whole life in a sterile bubble because he had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Dubbed "the boy in the bubble", he died at 12 after a failed bone marrow transplant.
7N1L TIL that, due to an urban legend, it’s common belief among brazilians that you might die from poisoning if you eat mango fruit mixed with milk
epAlL TIL that commercial fishing used to deliberately surround, trap and drown dolphins that would get in the way of the tuna which led to a government act to protect and label tuna caught without harming dolphins as “dolphin safe” tuna.