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TIL in 2006 a wine-tasting robot confirmed that human flesh tastes like pork (especially bacon)

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w1OM TIL that Serbia lost 60% of its male population in WWI. France lost 17%.
78AM7 TIL On 5 August 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her sons Richard and Eugen, in a Model III, without telling her husband. This became the First ever cross-country automobile journey.
D1g0g TIL praying mantises only have one ear. They are the only species of animals known to have only one ear.
XEDlj TIL that on December 28, 1973, after having worked for 16 hours a day without breaks for six weeks, the crew of the Skylab space station mutineed and shut off communications with ground control for a day
Eg6BX TIL Jimmy Connors is the only tennis player to have won the US Open on all three surfaces on which it has been contested - 1974 on grass, 1976 on clay and 1978 on hard court.