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TIL: All white tigers are the result of severe inbreeding. Most white tiger cubs are euthanized due to some type of deformity including eyes on the sides of their heads, deformed jaws and teeth, misshapen skeletal structure, mental disabilities, allergies, and weak immune systems

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b9Era TIL: Marceline from "Adventure Time" was played by the same actress that played Joanna, the pre-teen singing heartthrob, in "Love Actually".
Pjlw TIL of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a French saboteur during WWII. He once hid explosives inside loaves of bread and blew up a Nazi munitions plant. Captured, he feigned a seizure in his cell and when a guard opened the door, hit him with a table leg, broke his neck, shot 2 other guards and escaped.
b6rAE TIL Boeing used potatoes to test in-flight Wi-Fi
78kRP TIL suicide bombs can result in human shrapnel. Pieces of the bomber become lodged in survivors.
jNV9R TIL cockroaches wont eat cucumbers. This is due to a chemical in cucumbers (trans-2-nonenal) which acts as a natural replent for ants and roaches.