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TIL People living in Manila's slums survive on chicken scraps collected from garbage

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WkeoY TIL In 1971 Fleetwood Mac had to cancel a sold out show booked at the Whiskey A Go Go when their guitarist Jeremy Spencer simply vanished into thin air. He was eventually found having cut off all his hair, dressed in shabby clothes, and joined a cult called The Children of God.
vPmJD TIL Pierre Fauchard was the first to notice a relationship between sugar and tooth decay
R5wdl TIL people with albinism are hunted for their body parts in Africa because they're body parts are believed to be magical.
j69Vp TIL a small group of defense witnesses regularly testify against mainstream medical opinion in shaken baby cases over whether infants can be fatally injured through shaking alone
GxOj TIL the only way the BBC could record its live broadcasts in the 1950s was to point a film camera at a television. Because of this, the only known recording of the landmark sci-fi serial “The Quatermass Experiment” features an insect walking across the screen.