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TIL that the average human body has about 75 pounds of edible meat.

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9JQB TIL Jessica Alba owns a company that’s been valued at almost $1 billion
DQQlv TIL that the wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia lead to a 30-day voyage to find fresh water, a massacre, executions, and multiple battles over a makeshift limestone fort.
epw0J TIL in 1906, the raja of Bali and his entourage of priests, guards, women and children marched in trance towards the Dutch invaders. They took bullets from the Dutch army, and stabbed each other with ritual daggers until every single one died. This was a ritualistic mass suicide as final resistance
E14A0 TIL that poisonous food substances are the reason we find bitter taste unpleasant. Our taste buds evolved associating bitter taste to poison because most of the poisonous wild fruits are bitter & nutritious ones, sweet. The feature which protected us for centuries is now causing major health-risks.
OVX TIL twin brothers Jim & Jim were separated at birth and raised in different families, and each married women called Linda, got divorced and remarried women called Betty. Both men had a son called ‘James’ and owned a dog called 'Toy’.