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TIL Belgium is the world’s largest kangaroo meat importer. Sad part is that they’re taken down quiet cruelly: “Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions.”

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wLLDJ TIL 11 November is Chinese Singles Day, which evolves from a day to give yourself a nice present into a commercial holiday with billions in sale
mxJEy TIL the University of Cambridge (1209) is actually older than the Aztec Empire (1428)
GE05 TIL the term “mosh” (as in “most pit”) originated with singer H.R. of Bad Brains. He would frequently incite the audience to “mash” into each other, and his thick Jamaican accent rendered the word as “mosh”.
BgOVk TIL about the Majesty building or (I4 Eyesore building) which is still under construction since 2001. It was planned to be finished in 2003 but due to funding issues, construction was slowed severely.
b90R0 Today I learned about Project 100,000, which saw nearly 354,000 intellectually, physically, or mentally impaired men and women drafted into the US military during the height of the Vietnam war, going on to suffer casualty rates three times higher than that of normal soldiers.