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TIL: The United States top export to China is Garbage
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TIL - Some people purposefully infect themselves with hookworm to treat allergies and other auto-immune diseases.
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TIL about a Chinese cooking method called 'Velveting', which is a cornstarch and egg mixture that you soak meats in for a few hours prior to cooking. This provides more thermal mass which cooks the meat slower and creates a moisture barrier that seals in the juices for exceptionally tender meat.
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TIL PCP/Angel Dust was used as an anesthetic medication for humans and animals up until the '60s
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TIL the second version of the confederate flag was almost entirely white to symbolize the "Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race". The design was changed after confederate soldiers complained that it looked too much like the white flag of defeat.
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TIL a senator from Florida “went on vacation” in the middle of his term, never came back, and eventually turned up homeless and insane in the streets of Detroit