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TIL that in Finland meat sold in supermarkets has been labeled with the info on which farm the animals grew on.

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4Z9N TIL The CIA has backed 7 coups around the world
b6nea TIL about Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome, a cause of death for people infected by rabies in India; when bitten by rabid dogs, some superstitious people in India, both male and female, become convinced they are pregnant with puppies and seek faith healing instead of rabies treatments.
BBJW TIL Prisoner Tavon White impregnated four prison guards while incarcerated in Baltimore. Two of the women even had his name tattooed on them.
QJRwp TIL of the violent episode of the civil rights movement, the Orangeburg Massacre. On February 8, 1968, a civil rights protest at South Carolina State University turned deadly when 3 young men were killed, 28 people wounded, shot as they fled the assault by law enforcement.
OoZYe TIL Laszlo Polgar is a Hungarian chess teacher, who believes that "geniuses are made, not born”. So he home-schooled all 3 daughters with his own teaching style, and one of them - Judit now is widely considered to be the greatest female chess player ever