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TIL Josh Allen, Quarterback for the Buffalo Bills NFL team, maintained a 3.8 GPA in high school while playing on three of his school’s varsity sports teams.

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1aVrX TIL 40 years before James Cameron's "Avatar" was released, the "Noon Universe" Russian sci-fi novels were published, set on a forest planet called Pandora in the 22nd century, inhabited by humanoids called Nave (compared to the "Na'vi" in Avatar).
JYVK4 TIL of the Parsley massacre when Domincan forces killed as many as 35,000 Haitians. Few bullets were used – instead, Haitians were bludgeoned and bayonetted, then herded into the sea, where sharks finished what the soliders had began.
E1RDd TIL Cats cannot taste sweet things because of a genetic deficiency. After analysing two genes responsible for sweetness detection, one was missing in cats, meaning they lack the ability to produce a protein for tasting sweetness.
mx5GY TIL if you're ordering and paying for extra ingredients at an U.S. restaurant you're paying on the average a 426% mark-up for extra sour cream, 417% for cheese on a burger, and 525% for any ingredients on a pizza. An unidentified pizza chain has a 636% mark up for meat in their "meat-laden" pizza.
Z8NDv TIL the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, where experts will notice all the stupid errors in a news article but still treat the next article as 100% accurate, was invented by the author Michael Crichton who named it after the famous physicist he was talking to at the time to make it sound more scientific.