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TIL during Mao'great leap campaign in China, starvation was so horrible that people started comitting acts of canabalism which includes eating the death and parents eating their own children.

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nlo Today I learned Stevies dad from “Malcolm in the Middle” voices Uncle Ruckus on “The Boondocks”
V0WD TIL that in an effort to reduce childhood obesity, Belgium substituted beer for soft drinks in school lunches
8v1X TIL this temple, recently discovered in Turkey, suggests Mesopotamians were not the first civilization, by about 3000 years.
m15dE TIL that it is unknown why the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Norway despite the other Nobel Prizes being awarded in Sweden. Alfred Nobel, who the awards were established in memory of, said that it should be that way in his will and gave no explanation as to why
ADBy4 TIL Todd Rundgren did the music for Dumb and Dumber, one of the very few feature films that he did the score for.