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TIL Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation 5157 declaring March 6, 1984, as Frozen Food Day. President Reagan called upon the American people "to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”

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oEvA TIL After the Siege of Leningrad was broken, the Soviets wanted to prosecute those who had resorted to cannibalism. However, so many were accused (over two thousand) that the NKVD had to divide them into two groups; ‘corpse-eating’ and 'person-eating’. The former were jailed, that later were shot
pV5e TIL that if a billiard ball and the earth were the same size, earth would be smoother than the ball
78oZ7 TIL that the Canadian courier company now known as Purolator got its name from the US maker of oil and air filters, which owned it from 1967-1987
QgXX TIL for severe crimes such as mutiny, the Royal navy used to punish men with “flogging round the fleet”. The criminal would be ferried from ship to ship, and whipped by the crew of every ship at port
l7Ey5 TIL of ant-fungus mutualism. Leafcutter ants cut leaves and transport them back to their nests, where the leaves are used to cultivate fungus which is used as a food crop. In some advanced genera the queen ant may take a pellet of the fungus with her when she leaves to start a new colony.