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TIL if a child's fingertip gets severed off, a new fingertip may regrow.

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78d5L TIL that during Prohibition in the 1920s, the U.S. government deliberately ordered industrial alcohol to be poisoned to scare people from drinking it. Bootleggers, however, stole and resold this alcohol anyway. It's estimated this federal program killed at least 10,000 American citizens.
J1AeB TIL The US comic strip "Dennis the Menace" was released on the same day, on 12 March 1951, as the UK comic strip "Dennis the Menace". The comics are completely unrelated to each other apart from sharing the same name and release date.
LQkPZ TIL Pozole was made from the human meat of prisoners whose hearts had been ripped out in ritual sacrifice.
a8L8y TIL of Israel Epstein, a Jewish Polish-Chinese journalist who gained intimate access to Mao Zedong’s inner circle and was one of the few foreigners to gain Chinese citizenship.
0oJM TIL Most people in Europe do not use air conditioning.