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TIL machines can not mimic handmade crochet items due to the intricate patterns and weaves involved

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e0Np5 TIL about the Schweinemord - In 1915 due to World War I food restrictions and rationing, Germany decided to regard pigs as co-eaters with humans and tried to preserve supplies. Five million pigs were massacred in the so-called Schweinemord (pig massacre) to both make food and preserve grain.
wLmRJ TIL Inspector Todd from the Beverley Hills Cop movies was a real Detroit cop and was involved in state wide corruption which also implicated Detroit mayor Coleman Young as depicted in the movie White Boy Rick.
PYbLL TIL when Sylvester Stallone went to the person he sold his dog to, after he got paid for Rocky (1975), the new owner asked for $3000 instead of the original price of $60. After Stallone declined, the new owner agreed to give the dog if he got a role in Rocky. Stallone obliged and gave him a role.
jNLPX TIL that Al “Scarface” Capone got his famous facial scars from saying “Honey, you got a nice ass and I mean that as a compliment, believe me" to a woman. He got knifed in the face and received eighty stitches for the remark because it offended her brother.
VMMYZ TIL that aboout 1000 miles east of the EU, within southern Russia, exists the Republic of Kalmykia, the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the most common religion, most people are Kalmyks—descendants of Mongol hordes, and Kalmyk, related to Mongolian, is an official language alongside Russian.