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TIL: Why don’t we eat rabbits? - The Straight Dope

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856K TIL: that the human stomach has more nerve endings than the spinal cord, giving a bit more meaning to gut feeling.
Z84BB TIL: Because of a rumor claiming that Richard Hatch smuggled matches onto an island, all contestants on tv's Survivor now have to be strip searched
j6xPj TIL that until the 18th century, animal trials in court were common across Europe, including trials for murder and beastiality. In 1386, a pig was found guilty of killing a child, it was then dressed in male clothing and executed in the town square.
VM8L8 TIL that screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.
gMy67 TIL that the production of the musical Love Never Dies was delayed because composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto climbed onto Lloyd Webber's digital piano and managed to delete the entire score.