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TIL “Free range” chicken has no true definition and is mainly a marketing term

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X0vQ8 TIL of the Association of German National Jews - a pro-Nazi Jewish organisation. Founded in 1921 as an anti-communist body it wholeheartedly supported the Nazis arguing their anti-Semitic stance was only rhetoric. It was banned in 1935 and it's founder taken by the Gestapo.
5ZDk TIL that on its birthday (April 5th) Curiosity sings itself “Happy Birthday.”
epnNn TIL a rugby player ran a 90km marathon in his rugby boots and later organized a Test match in a WWII POW camp
9w5a6 TIL: In Native American mythology there is a Deer Woman, a beautiful woman with deer feet and other features. She lures men to their deaths. However, the Lakota say that if you sleep with her as a man, you go insane, while women get sexual and artistic powers .
wo8Q1 TIL a study by researchers at Connecticut College in 2013 discovered that Oreos activate the same “pleasure center” in the brains of lab rats that were activated by cocaine and morphine. The researchers also found that the rats liked to eat the crème filling first