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TIL that the Catholic Church allows eating beaver meat during lent.

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jwOM TIL that more people died during the Mao Era in China (49m to 78m) than all World War II casualties included (40m-72m). Making it the most mortiferous event in human history, only topped by the Black Plague in Europe.
O656 TIL the war hero Ewan McGregor portrayed in Black Hawk Down is a convicted child molester
RLZw TIL we nuked space in 1962
W7QA TIL the most powerful h-bomb in history had a mushroom cloud that reached almost twice as high as the height from which Felix Baumgartner jumped a week ago
ADG4n TIL there are a number of voice recordings of Theodore Roosevelt from his 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign