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TIL That PETA has killed over 34,000 animals. Most of which were healthy babies. Many were surrendered to PETA for it’s advertised adoption services which it never provided.

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Z9ka TIL After PIRA member Bobby Sands died on hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street the UK embassy was located on from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street. The embassy moved their entrance just so they wouldn’t have to use Bobby Sands Street on the letterhead.
96bB TIL of an Appalachian family that inbred to the point that newborns had blue skin.
x6Xbk TIL that the English town Pendle Hill derives its name from the old Cumbric word 'pen' (meaning 'hill') and the Old English word 'hyll' (meaning 'hill'). A literal translation of the name could read 'Hill-hill Hill.'
eBKJ TIL that weed and hops are from the same plant family
v07 TIL that when there should be a word for something but there isn’t is called a lexical gap.