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TIL after being traded since 1961, Pork Bellies were de-listed from the stock exchange in 2011 due to low trading volumes. Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice is on the verge of being de-listed too.

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WlE4 TIL that the cast of the 1979 science fiction horror film ‘Alien’ was never told about the chestburster scene in order to capture the authentic fear of the actors
JYnEv TIL that Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian Ethnographer, sailed from Peru to Polynesia on an primitive balsa wood raft to prove that ancient trans-oceanic travel was possible. When experts called it a fluke, he made an Egyptian reed boat and sailed it from Morocco to Central America to prove them wrong.
Aldo TIL the state of Missouri has a program called Puppies for Parole were the offenders at the prisons train dogs to be adopted. The program is in 19 of 20 institutions and the Queen of England is interested in starting a program like Missouri’s.
6wrm TIL n 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess of females and offered the U.S. 10 million Chinese women.
xVYLw TIL 'Saturn devouring his son' and the 13 other Black Paintings were never ment for public display. In 1819 Francisco Goya went into near isolation and painted the works directly onto the walls of his house. The haunting pictures reflect Goya's internal demons and civil strife occuring in Spain