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TIL A middle schooler’s award winning science project demonstrated that fast food ice is dirtier than toilet water

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4kMWR TIL of a Black cat-eating festival in Peru "rooted in culinary pragmatism when slaves lived on cotton plantations and had little else to eat." - Reuters (2001)
GlL4 TIL the pathologist who conducted JFK’s autopsy burned his original notes in his home fireplace
GYeW4 TIL that in 2015 a Texas man was hospitalized after trying to kill an armadillo. After shooting at the armadillo three times with a .38 revolver, one of the bullets ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the face. The armadillo was not found by the police after the incident.
9J5p TIL There is a site where you can watch TV like it was in the 90s, including commercials, trailers, etc.
Mg58 TIL that even though the Hindenburg was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen gas, it had a smoking room