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TIL More than 2 billion people eat insects daily.

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b9vO9 TIL that "The Saga Begins," Weird Al Yankovic's parody of the song "American Pie" where he lays out the plot of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, was written almost entirely based on internet spoilers.
6DgZ TIL that the Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic Priest in 1927
BJ8d TIL that Navy SEALs used to be waterboarded as a component of their training but the process was discontinued when no SEAL could handle it.
Z5mo TIL parents in New York who don’t believe in diapers are teaching their babies to poop in the sink or on the street
dD5Z7 TIL an 1854 London cholera outbreak was curbed by a man who defied the day's medical beliefs. Dr John Snow, father of modern epidemiology, traced the outbreak to a tainted water pump. The pump handle was removed, basically ending outbreak. The theory that disease spread by "bad air" soon unraveled.