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TIL Human Rights Watch released a 175 page report documenting human rights violations in the US meat and poultry industries

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Gr57 TIL that the Japanese have the world’s most negative opinion of the Chinese, and vice versa
bQkp TIL that divers in 1900 discovered an ancient Greek shipwreck with an odd-looking bronze device on board. The device was later determined to be the world’s oldest analog computer, dating back to the 1st century B.C.E., thousands of years before similar technologies would be re-discovered
MjoV TIL a partnership between US and Chinese space agencies is impossible - the 2011 spending bill made any scientific activity involving NASA and the Chinese illegal.
GYjxj TIL male Pennsylvania grass spiders are more likely to approach a female for sex if she has recently killed and eaten another male.
P4kg TIL a scientist was possibly murdered in Antarctica in 2000. The case has not been resolved.