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TIL: McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli
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TIL that in the North Korean Gulag daily rations amount to less than 500 calories per day, the physically challenged are forced to do hard labor and the death rate is 1,000 to 2,000 per year.
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TIL that because of the “Leap Second” yesterday, numerous websites crashed because their algorithms couldn’t compute that extra second, including Reddit.
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TIL that taxol, one of the most used IV chemotherapy could not be chemically produced and must be extracted from European If tree leaf
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TIL: 1 PB (petabyte) of data, if written on DVDs, would create roughly 223,100 DVDs, i.e., a stack about 878 feet tall, or a stack of CDs a mile high.
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TIL Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie, who won 2 Olympic Golds and 4 world titles in 10000 meters, runs with a crooked left arm because he developed the habit as a child when he used to run 10 kilometers to school every day whilst holding his books