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TIL: The oldest known medical text is a book about vaginas.

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4kXbN TIL in 2017, a Pittsburgh restaurant hosted an event with French-Canadian chefs serving horse tartare. The event sparked public outrage, USDA investigation, and a petition to ban horse meat in Pennsylvania. Horse meat is a delicacy and staple throughout much of French-Canada, Europe, and Asia.
OBr7 TIL During hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s, many people suffered from “a compulsion to write endless strings of zeros” called Zero Stroke
mxDOY TIL there are 14 Land Before Time movies spanning 28 years
wLay1 TIL that chicken nuggets were invented by a poultry and food science professor at Cornell University in the ‘60s.
OoM84 TIL Parks and Recreation was going to have a connection to The Office. Originally after trying to fix the Dunder Mifflin Scranton copier it was sent to a warehouse and repaired, then ended up in the Parks and Recreation Department in Pawnee.