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TIL that catfish is the only seafood that is not regulated by the FDA. Instead it is regulated by the USDA similarly to meat and poultry.

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gWeW TIL that Danny Trejo often chooses to play bad guys to teach younger audiences that bad guys often die or go to prison, and that one should try to live a decent life.
E1gL0 TIL William Shatner sold his kidney stone for US$25,000, which paid for the building of a house by Habitat for Humanity.
Xe7D TIL a single blood donor in Australia is credited with saving more than 2 million lives.
b6va4 TIL about the Camondo Stairs in Istanbul, Turkey which were built by Abraham Salomon Camondo in the 1870s. The stairway was constructed as a shortcut for his children to go to school and its hexagonal shape was designed to prevent his children from falling further down the steps in case they fell.
YpyGG TIL In a study on memories conducted between 1973-2013, research showed Women perform better when it comes to remembering verbal information, such as words, sentences, texts, and objects, but also the location of objects, and movies while Men can better recall abstract images and remember directions