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TIL our bodies cannot digest corn, this is why we always see them in our stool

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ANOMn TIL that after leading a peasant revolt in Hungary in 1514, György Dósza was punished by being chained to a heated iron throne and had pieces of flesh torn off by hot pliers. His followers were then forced to eat him alive by biting the spots where the pliers were inserted and to swallow his flesh.
wQBo TIL: There is a latitude referred to as the “Ham Belt” that is renowned for producing excellent hams, due to their climates being ideal temperatures to cure hams.
dD9aj TIL that Hiawatha was a real person, but Longfellow’s poem The Song of Hiawatha wasn’t really about him at all
7redL TIL the Carménère grape was considered extinct. That was until 1994 when a oenologist went to Chile and discovered that the Merlot he was tasting was, in fact, Carménère. Turns out the grape was accidentally planted and preserved when it was mistaken for Merlot.
d8Y9 TIL The highly classified Task Force Black removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad, reducing bombings from 150 per month to about 2 per month.