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TIL Black Americans are almost three times as likely to be vegan and vegetarian than other Americans

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ZEQo TIL Iceland forgave its entire population of Mortgage Debt and the media didn’t really pick up on it
9wQoX TIL about the history of the Enigma machine, a cryptographic device used by the German military during World War II.
WkkNd TIL of joseph lozito, the man that stopped a stabbing-spree, never got acknowledged by the police as the man who stopped him. He fought the killer whilst being stabbed with a giant knife in the arm, the chest and in the head.
Vk90 TIL that Canadian doctors invented a procedure to help a woman with bone cancer where they almost literally cut her in half and then (mostly) put her back together.