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TIL that MSG is generally accepted as harmless by the scientific community, with the negative stigma arising from a handful of anecdotal complaints in the 1960’s

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yoRJ TIL a man in Florida wrestled a shark out of the water to retrieve his nephew’s arm that had been bitten off. Doctors were able to re-attach the arm.
4pmo TIL that 4 Walmart employees were fired after disarming a man that was caught shoplifting.
xVdV5 TIL that the Catholic Church issued a Papal Bull in 1567 condeming bullfighting as "cruel and base spectacles of the devil and not of man.", with the organisers and attendees barred from it under the threat of being excommunicated.
gBV8 TIL in 2014, scientists created Vantablack, a substance made from carbon nanotubes, which absorbs 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum making it the blackest substance known.
wnAW TIL an orangutan named Chantek was raised as a human child. He mastered sign language and understands the value and use of money and work, choosing to spend his earnt ‘money’ on his favourite fast food, hamburgers.