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TIL that pigs are cannibalistic towards piglets, largely due to hormonal fluctuations among gilts.

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R79j1 TIL The music to the Star-Spangled​ Banner is from a British drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven” By John Stafford Smith written in 1780
OoL5X TIL the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan is the most-nuked location on earth, with 456 nuclear explosions recorded between 1949 and 1989.
wrP1 TIL, a parchment manuscript was erased by a 13th-century monk to write a Christian liturgical text. The erased manuscript was originally written by Archimedes and contained some of the fundamentals of modern calculus, which wouldn’t be developed for almost another 2,000 years.
n6pG TIL The doctor who discovered that hand washing prevented the spread of disease was thrown in a mental institution for his crazy ideas.
GYlW5 TIL carbon dating is useless to date anything after 1950 and will be useless for the forseeable future because of the amount of change in carbon-14 levels from human nuclear weapons detonations.