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TIL 99.6% of all animals used and killed by humans in the U.S. are farmed animals

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woZ5Y TIL that one of Ilaiyaraaja's Tamil film songs was featured at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Ilayaraaja is one of the few musicians to have composed music for over 1000 films in his career
0ypM TIL: in 2008 Mississippi, a lady attempted to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car. Police could not charge her or her daughter, the child’s mother, with selling the child because in Mississippi, the practice is legal.
r7PW TIL the fat and round “Laughing Buddha” isn’t a depiction of Gauthama Buddha at all, but of a Chinese deity called “Budai”
bOjZ TIL the word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
WJ9A TIL: In the Dr. Seuss movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T”, one of the 150 boys vomited on the piano while filming. This caused a chain reaction resulting in 150 vomiting boys. Dr. Seuss said that the film’s reviews were similar.