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TIL In what is now Germany there was a Neolithic cannibal feasting site/village

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rnMd TIL in 1956, the U.S. passed the Refrigerator Safety Act, which made it mandatory for all fridges to be magnetically sealed. This was due to the high amount of children who suffocated in latched refrigerators.
vPMyD TIL the Madagascar buttonquail is a ground-dwelling species with an unusual breeding biology in which the sexual dimorphism is reversed, with female being more brightly coloured than the male and it is the male that incubates the eggs and mainly cares for the young.
5WlP TIL in 1999 EA had to recall 100,000 copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 as an EA employee hid an uncensored copy of South Park’s Jesus vs Santa episode on the PlayStation disc
p8xA4 TIL a German company developed a pane glass for windows that replicates the way birds see spiders' webs so they will avoid flying into them, thus greatly reducing the high avian death rate caused by collision with building windows
epP7k TIL: heart disease was fairly uncommon until the 20th century. It is now the leading cause of death. The cause of the increase was smoking and diet