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

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4k4eJ TIL that David Blaine has over the course of a decade been buried alive for 7 days, encased in ice for 64 hrs, stood on 100ft high pillar for 35 hrs, survived only on water for 44 days and spent 7 days submerged underwater water
P4xe TIL that Starfish Prime was the largest man made nuclear explosion in outer space.
0LNA TIL that the German Blitzkrieg on France in 1940 was fueled in large part by crystal meth. A patented pill form of the drug called Pervitin enabled German soldiers to fight for days at a time without sleeping.
4nVb TIL: You can actually die from a broken heart
9wpv6 TIL that rabbits may eat their own offspring when stressed