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TIL the Dick's motto means "Yet my hope is unbroken"

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kJav4 TIL It takes more than 4 million average-sized farts a year to generate enough biogas to power a large-sized home.
grm8D TIL there's a novel out of Canada where a woman falls in love with a bear (and yes they do it) "the best Canadian novel of all time.", "quintessential Canadian book", "Books That Make You Proud to Be a Canadian." and "spiritual gangrene... a Faustian compact with the Devil."
KO9eQ TIL: 7.4% of Switzerland's exports is blood.
WkodX TIL That consuming foods containing vitamin C as a cure for Scurvy has been repeatedly rediscovered and forgotten through history
VpVG TIL the samurai’s name in the TV show Samurai Jack is never mentioned. The first people he encounters in the future call him “Jack” as a form of slang, which he adopts as his name, the name his parents gave him is unknown.