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TIL Blue food coloring has been shown to improve recovery from spinal cord injury when injected into the spine of rats.

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Z474 TIL Venezuela’s prisons are so bad, that the inmates hold gladiatorial matches to settle disputes (Also, in that country, a person is murdered every 21 minutes. And in the last 15 years, there has been upwards of 200,000 murders)
rRJZ1 TIL of Iron Age pigs, a cross between wild boar and domestic pig, first developed for a BBC documentary to mirror the type of pig represented by prehistoric art works of the Iron Age in ancient Europe. They are now raised for their meat with a distinctive gamey pork flavour.
8aXNL TIL that a Soviet teenager Zinaida Portnova killed over 100 Nazis by poisoning them, Betrayed and captured, she is said to have shot the Nazi detective who captured her.
VMZ1k TIL about a mineral discovered in the town of Cummington, Massachusetts in 1824. It’s called Cummingtonite.
N7Xp1 Today I learned that Lamborghini donated a Huracán Rwd to Pope Francis. The car will be auctioned, with proceeds being donated to charitable causes across the globe.