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TIL the original verse for the recipe of Ezekiel bread in the Bible says includes baking it over cow feces.

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9YGrX TIL Animals in Japan can only stay at the shelter for 5 days before being put to rest if no one has adopted them.
y65p TIL upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the phrase “London Bridge is down” will announce her death to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This will set into motion “Operation London Bridge” (formed in the 1960s), which is the code name for what will happen in the days after she dies.
8agdP TIL of the very mysterious death of Edgar Allen Poe
5bLk TIL that writer Walt Whitman volunteered during the American Civil War by writing countless letters on behalf of soldiers, some of whom were illiterate or were dying, back home to their loved ones
696aY TIL Michael Phelps contemplated suicide after the 2012 Olympics, in which he won four gold and two silver medals.