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TIL that up until at least 2001, cattle that died in the Austrian Alps was blown up rather than hauled away via helicopter

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AN7Lx TIL a 15 year old girl named Marsha Albert was responsible for Beatlemania in the United States in the early 1960’s.
mxJZY TIL that since 2004, the Chicago Police Department has detained and "disappeared" at least 6,000 people, primarily through "essentially a domestic blacksite", an unlisted police facility contained within a warehouse.
6dQJ TIL that the word “callipygian” is used to describe someone with beautifully shaped buttocks.
9YRQp TIL just a couple of months into their development, little humans begin peeing freely into the amniotic fluid that surrounds them in the womb. Every last one of us has spent several months drinking our own pee.
VMErQ TIL that rubbing an injury right after it happens alleviates pain because the spinal chord preferentially forwards pressure signals (to the brain) over pain signals