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TIL Angelina Jordan, a 14 y.o. singer who won Norway's Got Talent in 2014, always performs barefoot because when aged 6 she met a girl living on the streets without shoes- Angelina gave this girl her shoes and vowed never to appear on stage again wearing shoes until all the world’s children had them

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GoO5 TIL that not only has the wolverine been known to actively hunt moose (despite being outweighed 20:1) but that one account describes a wolverine killing a polar bear.
XQbX TIL that due to the process of blending together beef from multiple delivery batches, a McDonald’s burger patty “can be made up of the meat from more than 100 cattle”
168aX TIL from the 1930s to 1960s pregnancy tests worked by injecting a mouse or rabbit with the woman's urine. The animal was then dissected, and if the ovaries were enlarged it indicated the woman was pregnant.
Y7Bwr TIL: French was the official language of England for around 300 years.
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