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TIL Americans over the age of 60 are entitled to one kilogram of free cheese every month

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dG5Q TIL that pets can be allergic to humans
WkJdd TIL of Hessy Levinsons Taft who had her picture submitted into a contest to find the "most beautiful Aryan baby." She won. What the Judge, Joseph Goebbels, didnt know was that Hessy was a Jew and the photographer had entered the picture because he "wanted to make the Nazis (look) ridiculous."
nKYr TIL that the Chinese government has been widely accused of harvesting and selling organs from imprisoned practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice and other political prisoners.
OWng TIL: Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone in 1995 caused regrowth of many populations and even saved the rivers from erosion .
4lrw TIL that in in 1914 Henry Ford published an Anti-Smoking book that was targeted at young people, years before Smoking was widely considered unhealthy.