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TIL horse meat was sold as beef in Europe

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E4jX TIL the wage gap has been largely debunked and is actually a misrepresentation, encompassing “all full time women” and “all full time men” without adjusting for basic things like their education, how many hours they work, or even what job they occupy.
WkORo TIL The first recorded instance of a person living in three centuries was that of Margaret Ann Neve, a woman from the British island of Guernsey who lived from 1792 to 1903.
N74BE TIL that female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first through a phenomenon called ‘superfetation’
a4RM TIL in 1995, when looking through the manuscripts of Carl Koller at the Library of Congress, a German historian found a small envelope of cocaine with the note: “Remainder of the first dose with which I made my initial cocaine experiment in 1884”
oBL1A TIL: That most of the fake snow used in the 1980 Movie "The Shining" was repurposed from the ice planet Hoth scenes in "The Empire Strikes Back".