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TIL: Hippos, Deer and other herbivores sometimes eat meat and even kill live game

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VMoZ8 TIL that in the UK, over 100,000 knifes have been used to make a 26 foot sculpture of an angel to highlight the countries growing knife crime problem. All the knifes used in the statue had been confiscated by or surrendered to the police. The sculpture is called Knife Angel.
R7Gyl TIL That excessive caffeine ingestion leads to symptoms that overlap with those of many psychiatric disorders. In psychiatric in-patients, caffeine has been found to increase anxiety, hostility and psychotic symptoms.
WkePL TIL that since 1814, the diamond-studded Iffland-Ring is hold by the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre"
JGMV TIL when an American soldier looses his penis as a result of wounds sustained in combat, there are no disability payments, or mental health services after the wound is initially treated.
b6vMp TIL: Kleenex was invented as a cotton substitute for use by doctors during WWI