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TIL Snoop Dog wrote a cook book that has very good reviews.

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PYAnL TIL: In 1995 Richard Stallman, a well-known critic of the patent system, testified in Patent Office hearings that, to test the system, a colleague of his had managed to win a patent for one of Kirchhoff's laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845.
WkA04 TIL Darwin never used the word "evolution" in his book On the Origin of Species, he instead called the process "descent with modification". He only used the term "evolved" once, as the last word of the last sentence of the book.
9YQEp TIL German engineer Bernd Brandes volunteered to be killed and eaten by aspiring cannibal Armin Meiwes, who placed an ad on the internet looking for someone to be killed and eaten. After eating Brandes and going to jail, Meiwes became a vegetarian.
R7Zr7 TIL: The River Thames is one of the cleanest Rivers in the world that flows through a major city, after being declared biologically dead 50 years ago
R5E4 TIL the torture scene with the rat in the heated pot in Game of Thrones was an actual method of torture used during the Red Terror.