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TIL the lowest class of meat called ‘Canner’ is used for dog food… and school lunches.

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wLWw8 TIL that almost 1/3 of all the morphine in the world is derived in a city in Turkey called "Afyon" which literally means Opium.
XpdQ TIL J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”, once confessed that he left a poisoned apple on his tutor’s desk.
VBB5G TIL that Anticipatory Grief is grief you exoerience before a person dies. It is common for children to feel about their parents or the family members of those with terminal illness.
51XD TIL there is a small town in Australia which has a decommissioned submarine on display in a park, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ visit to the country community members knitted yellow wool squares to cover the entire sub.
y4nv TIL there is a form of OCD (pOCD) that manifests as intrusive thoughts and fears of molesting children. These thoughts cause extreme distress and the diagnosis of pedophilia has absolutely nothing to do with the diagnosis of pOCD.