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TIL that an adult attracted to teens is an ephebophile not a pedophile

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ANPjg TIL an Australian company grows meat cultures of existing and extinct animals. In addition to investigating the potential of more than 50 species, including alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo, peacocks and different types of fish, the company has created a "mammoth meatball."
4kdD6 TIL that there are 170 million objects larger than 1mm in space, each capable of destroying a spacecraft's ability to reach a specific altitude upon impact, and with all of them moving at a speed of 10 kilometers per second.
b6WWQ TIL that Hershey’s Ice Cream is unrelated to Hershey’s (the candy company), even though both companies were founded in the same year in Lancaster County, PA
v1aWL TIL nearly 7 out of 10 Americans have less than $1000 in savings.
NX4ZQ TIL Drake's Plate - a brass plaque initially believed to be inscribed & left by Sir Francis Drake at the site of his CA landfall & considered CA's greatest historic treasure at the time of its "discovery" - was a prank on historians by their peers that escalated out of control (despite many clues)