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TIL: Amelia Dyer, the "Ogress of Reading", likely killed 200-400 children while running a "baby farm" in the 1800s.

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8aj7b TIL that when people in the UK talk about eating “baked beans on toast”, they’re not referring to the US-style baked beans that consist of a brown sugar base. They have a completely different style of baked beans with a tomato base.
ANYRw TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far.
OJ5a TIL the Navy e-Reader Device, for use aboard US Navy Submarines, is pre-loaded with Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings books
M71ZB TIL that in 1957, Congress voted to de-authorize Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota because the site became devoid of fossils due to pillaging and they were no longer able to justify it's existence as a unit of the NPS.
m1ZLE TIL there is a song titled "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories" meant to "convey[] the concept of radiological warning" so "no one will forget it for a significant portion of the lifespan of dangerous radiation at repository sites"