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TIL Raw Oysters are still alive when you eat them

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1MA4 TIL Ravens make toys—a rare animal behavior—by using sticks, pinecones, golf balls, or rocks to play with each other or by themselves. And sometimes they just taunt or mock other creatures because it’s funny.
0wlgp TIL TGI Fridays exists because the founder was single and wanted to create a place to meet women
6NQQ TIL obsidian is one of the earliest materials used for knife blades. 2.6 million years latter surgeons still use obsidian for scalpels as it is sharper than any other material in use and is noted to cut more cleanly so as to not leave a scar.
pYkO TIL there’s a programming language called Brainfuck whose command set consists entirely of just 8 characters. The “Hello World” program can be written as “ ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++..+++.——.——–.>+.>.”
7ryBM TIL Celebrity Chief Julia Child helped develop a recipe for Shark Repellent during WWII