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TIL Packages of bacon include a window on the back to see the fat courtesy of the USDA

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eZK4 TIL That every time you recall a memory, you’re remembering the last time you remembered it. The memory gets distorted even more each time.
W7QeN TIL Australia nearly became a republic in a 1999 referendum but was defeated 45/54
BrjBL TIL that Richard Drew, the photographer who took the famous photo of the "Falling Man" who leapt from the North Tower on 9/11, was also one of the four photographers present at Bobby Kennedy's assassination.
rRrg1 TIL: In April, Dr. Ch@os, the man responsible for the causing power outages, taking down air traffic towers, and storing cyanide will no longer have his internet use monitored. He has promised to not commit crime again.
OG0OY TIL about the Witches Well, a (now) dry fountain installed outside Edinburgh Castle, in 1894, to memorialize the thousands of victims, mostly women, accused of witchcraft who were burned at the stake, nearby. It is the only such memorial to these victims in Scotland.