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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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7rpNX TIL a common homeopathic cure for the flu is a 200C dilution of duck liver. A dilution of one molecule in the observable universe is 40C, therefore one would need to consume the equivalent of 10^320 observable universes of the substance to get a single molecule of duck liver.
9YLmp TIL Bruce Lee probably died from heat stroke.
gJD8 TIL the Christian God ordered an invading army to kill the women of Samaria, cut their fetuses out of their wombs, and to dismember their babies by repeatedly bashing them over stones
oBEAo TIL a Mellified man is a person mummified in honey. They would often eat honey till they died, buried in honey, dug up a century later to be eaten for medicinal purposes
xO0g TIL that Mormon leaders once publicly taught that handicapped people were “less valiant” spirits than able bodied people.