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TIL that the "bones" you sometimes find in salmon fillets aren't bones at all. They're calcified nerve endings used to sense other salmon.

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4Br5 TIL that Iceland was involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They sent two troops.
nWnZ9 TIL Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede, a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee,was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013
4XXZb TIL that in Dallas on Elm street where JFK was shot, there are X's on the street to signify where he was hit.
RR47 TIL Japan fines fat people
LkLod TIL Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald was adamantly opposed to state regulation of firearms even though many in his own party worried about the proliferation of cheap, easily concealable handguns. He believed the right to carry weapons was an important component of British liberty