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TIL the opposite of jealousy is compersion

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OKg1 TIL that Budweiser is the best selling beer in only one country: Canada
pYNAG TIL A male Wyandotte chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot.
Oo1Rg TIL - CIA revealed a "heart attack" gun in 1975. A battery operated gun which fired a dart of frozen water & shellfish toxin. Once inside the body it would melt leaving only a small red mark on the victim where it entered. The official cause of death would always be a heart attack.
8aloV TIL: Food Allergies are now 2-3 times higher compared to 1997. We have also seen diagnosed anaphylactic (life threatening) food reactions rise 377 percent from 2007 to 2016. As of 2011, one out of thirteen kids have a food allergy. To this day, scientists are still dumbfounded over this epidemic.
mEQE TIL that, in the U.S.A., corporate personhood was established in 1819, which means that corporations got to be people before black people did.