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TIL M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.

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VMAw0 TIL that Idaho is the only U.S. state to declare cannibalism illegal. Idaho adopted the ban in 1990 as a reaction to a fear that eating humans would emerge in ritualized practices.
lox17 TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he used on his later victims
M7YjA TIL that it is illegal to mail dirty underwear.
1aold TIL there's an unofficial language called Portunol (Portugese/Espanol) which is a slang Spanish-Portuguese hybrid. Spanish fans at Brazil's world cup would speak it to work through the language barrier. Brazilians apparently found it extremely offensive.
b68o9 TIL the first top prize winner on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire never used any of his lifelines until the last question where he used the "Phone a Friend" lifeline. He phoned his father not to ask for help but to tell him that he was about to become a millionaire.