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TIL that according to the testimony of people who have eaten other people, the taste of human meat does not reflect its beef-like appearance. Serial killers and Polynesian cannibals have described human as being most akin to pork. The taste also depends on how it is prepared and what cut is sampled.

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7rQwO TIL of cardiac surgeon Michael DeBakey, who developed MASH hospitals and many new surgical techniques, including the first treatment for aortic dissection. In 2005, he suffered an aoertic dissection and his life was saved by the surgery he invented.
b9rQ TIL that since 1988, all U.S. presidential debates have been controlled by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The Commission is a corporation owned 50% Democrat, 50% Republican, making it extremely unlikely that a 3rd party candidate will ever speak in any such debate.
XnDX TIL of Nellie Bly, a pioneer of investigative journalist who faked insanity in 1887 to investigate reports of brutality & neglect at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. She also went around the world in 72 days
VMXv0 TIL that many early, animated Disney films were made by filming actors in real time and then tracing over their bodies frame by frame. This led to studios repurposing older animations as time went on, and helped develop modern-day roto-scoping and motion-capture technology.
adaZ TIL that the speeding up mechanism in Space Invaders was actually unintentional - the processor was just ‘more efficient when there were fewer objects on screen’