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TIL that there is a Canadian Tory politician named John Tory

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5yXp TIL the FDA relies on studies performed by the companies seeking approval of chemicals they manufacture or want to use. No other developed country has a system where companies decide the safety of chemicals put into food. Many food additives allowed in the U.S. are banned in other countries
xVNR0 TIL that Bikini atoll, the place where Bikini Bottom was named after, was declared a nuclear wasteland after the US dropped 23 bombs in the 1950s. However scientists have found thriving life in the center of it all, with evidence that life restarted a mere 10 years after the bombings.
PVvg TIL: There is a species of octopus called the Argonaut. The male stores up sperm in his penis/tentacle and when he finds a mate, he tears it off and gives it to her so that she can, quite literally, go fuck herself.
awnPM TIL of the Mace Kingsley Ranch, a Scientology Private School where students were forced to do hard labor and the director, Wally Hanks, would punish the students with beatings (he was caught on audio tape). The school shut down in 2002.
8agvV TIL that Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California was named after a man who shot and killed his wife in an alcohol-fueled rage. He was convicted of attempted murder and spent two years in San Quentin.