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TIL of a Black cat-eating festival in Peru "rooted in culinary pragmatism when slaves lived on cotton plantations and had little else to eat." - Reuters (2001)

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6DDW TIL: The fictional company name “Acme” became popular in the 1920s, when numerous companies wanted to be at the top in alphabetized business telephone directories.
rdWM TIL that the Krubera Cave in Georgia is the deepest cave on earth, descending over 2 kilometres into the depths of the Earth’s crust.
OojG1 TIL: After one of his employees was shot and killed during a shootout, Colonel Sanders grabbed a gun and shot the perpetrator in the shoulder.
GAnr1 TIL Leonardo's painting, Mona Lisa, is one of the most important art objects on Earth, but it's not insured.
X4nX TIL in 2007 a Belgian senatorial candidate posed nude and promised voters 40,000 blowjobs in a campaign ad. She didn’t win.