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TIL Concrete is the second most consumed substance on Earth after water

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VMBLG Do not be fooled by its adorable name—the cookiecutter shark attacks by suctioning its lips to the flesh of its victims, spins, and ejects a cylindrical plug of flesh from its prey!
jNoAQ TIL that Aldous Huxley's descriptions of the effects of alcohol on fetuses in Brave New World predate the scientific recognition of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by more than four decades.
Yp8Jx TIL actress Jennifer Connelly inspired Princess Jasmine's appearance in 'Aladdin'. The final appearance of Jasmine consequently inspired the studio to redesign Aladdin based on actor Tom Cruise because Disney felt the original depiction was 'too scrawny' to have believable chemistry with Jasmine.
X0aR TIL Nelson Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008
EWlw TIL that in the Vietnamese version of Cinderella (Tam Cam), at the end, Cinderella dismembered her step sister, put the body into a jar of food and sent it to her step mother to eat, which she enjoyed until she found the skull at the bottom of the jar and died of shock.