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TIL eating the liver of a polar animal (especially polar bears) will kill you due to a vitamine A overdose.

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KYGe4 TIL that in addition to being the youngest EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner, fastest to achieve EGOT, and only EGOT winner twice over, songwriter Robert Lopez (who wrote music for such works as Disney's Frozen) broke the previous record of fastest to achieve EGOT previously held by...himself.
l0ga TIL Pirates stole internet cable and sold it as scrap causing most of Vietnam to get far slower internet access
NWNe TIL that in 1991 World Table Tennis Championships North and South Korea participated as a unified team under the name “Korea” to beat the “unbeatable” Chinese team
Aodd TIL that Hans Zimmer, the composer/producer for over 150 movies, including The Lion King, Gladiator, all Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Pearl Harbor, Rush, Inception, the Dark Knight, etc; had only 2 weeks of formal music education (piano lessons as a child).
9nyD TIL while you inherit DNA from both parents, you end up using your father’s DNA more. Genetically, you are more like your dad than your mom.