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TIL Type O Negative's title song "Bloody Kisses", about a woman who committed suicide, it’s a veiled tribute to Peter Steele's 17-year-old cat Venus: "No one wants to hear about a guy who's 6' 8" with long black hair and fangs crying about his f**kin' cat, so I had to make it extremely metaphoric."

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69QDY TIL in 1895 a judge awarded nothing beyond burial costs to the parents of a two year old killed by the Southern Railway Company of Georgia, due to the child being too young to have any "earning capacity" of it's own.
LEV9 TIL that 30% of people are iron-deficient. Successful treatment could raise national productivity 20%
ADo7a TIL of the Jelly bean rule, a rule put forth by the FDA saying that companies can't claim their food to be healthy simply because it's low in fat, cholesterol, and sodium, and must contain at least 10% of Daily Values of nutrients like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, protein, fiber, or iron.
R5Br9 TIL that during James Cook’s first Pacific voyage, the crew brought a Polynesian navigator on board. He produced a chart of 130 islands he knew across a 2,000 mile radius, including 74 of their names and many of their distances, sizes, chiefs, and foods they produced.
VxRB TIL that Mexicans have the highest average annual hours worked in the world