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TIL duck feet have fewer nerves and smaller blood vessels so they don't feel the cold as drastically

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wo7mW TIL of Mbah Suro, a communist shaman and mystic who only consumed coffee and cigarettes, denied the existence of God, and claimed to give bulletproof powers. He had 500,000 followers at his peak before him and his followers were gunned down by the anti-communist Suharto regime in 1967.
16XX8 TIL Lucozade dates to 1927 and was originally a health drink and given to in patients of hospitals.
N798P TIL of Clement Vallandigham, the congressman who accidentally shot himself in court while trying to demonstrate that the death of a man was accidental suicide, rather than murder. (He won the case, but also died.)
MAg0 TIL that the total US highway fatality rate perfectly correlates to the number of fresh lemons imported from Mexico
e0Mm5 TIL while some countries struggle to fulfill government pension obligations, the Government Pension Fund of Norway currently holds over $1 trillion in assets.