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TIL that when the Chinese stopped killing sharks for sharkfin soup at the behest of Yao Ming, that people instead shifted to killing Manta Rays

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788DX TIL In 1974 at a Canadian army training base in Quebec, cadets were being trained to handle discarded explosives. A cadet asked one of the instructors if he could pull the pin on the grenade, and the instructor told him it was safe. It exploded, killing 6 cadets and injuring 65 others.
oa7r TIL that Freud actually named the id, the ego and the superego the It, the I and the Over-I, which were more or less self-explanatory, but his translator latinized them, making them less accessible.
yod8 TIL that US teen crime is now at lowest level since 1960.
p8OkO TIL about a popular carnival game where people threw baseballs at living black people.
b6mga TIL Kissinger was sent on a secret trip to China in 1971, wearing fedora and sunglasses as disguise. Landing in Pakistan first, he feigned a stomach ache, saying he needed a few days to rest, which bought him enough time to fly into Beijing undetected