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TIL that India has more vegetarians than the rest of the world put together.

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Zp5YD Today I learned that Fatty and Spotty (two of the Bash Street Kids from The Beano) were respectively renamed Freddy and Scotty in 2021.
BrdBb TIL that August Busch IV, the former president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, killed his passenger in an accident when he was 19. Although there were empty beer cans scattered around and he fled the scene, no charges were filed. The urine sample was lost and the blood sample was 'mishandled'.
ADQDo TIL that Queen termites can live up to 50 years and can 'permit' secondary reproductives (females) to create satellite nests for the colony, but can also chemically block reproduction for the entire colony at any time if she chooses.
4pOR TIL A man escaped prison using a cardboard box aka Solid Snake syle
PYr5G TIL a cow from Bulgaria was almost killed because it wandered off outside the EU borders lacking the necessary paperwork.