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TIL that 10-14% of people have a condition called "Beeturia" that causes their urine to turn red or pink following the consumption of beetroot.
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TIL the 1994 Super Famicom game "Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem" was adapted into a 2-episode anime series in 1996. Hikaru Midorikawa - the voice of Marth - would reprise his role in the Super Smash Bros. series.
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TIL how the U.S. 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis held a Marathon Event that is one of the most chaotic events in Olympic History.
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TIL Michael Caine wasn’t there to collect his first acting Oscar (for Hannah & Her Sisters) because he was reshooting the end of Jaws 4
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TIL three people are confirmed to have been cured of HIV and another three similar cases have been reported, but it is too early to say if HIV has been completely cleared in these cases.
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TIL NBA player Tony Snell is the only player to ever register a 50-50-100 season (min. 100 attempts) in 2021.
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TIL there is a modern-day squid larger than the Giant Squid, called the Colossal Squid. Despite many attempts, it has never been filmed in its natural habitat.
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TIL that passenger pigeons once travelled in such massive flocks (billions of birds) that conservationist Aldo Leopold referred to them as a "living wind", a "biological storm", and a "feathered tempest"
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