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TIL Lobsters were considered poor people food, prisoners used to complain they were forced to eat lobster too often

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D1pyp TIL Scientists found cancer in a 1.7 million year old foot bone and a 2 million year old spine from two ancient hominin specimens in South Africa. Before these finds, the oldest dated cancer in a human was only 120,000 years old.
b1kj TIL that President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot started yelling obscenities during the former president’s own funeral and had to be removed.
epg04 TIL there were 8 US Presidents that filed for Bankruptcy
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