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TIL Pork butt is actually from a pig’s shoulder and the ‘butt’ has nothing to do with the animal

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kWRm TIL that members of the German military take a ceremonial oath on the anniversary of the day that members of the German Army attempted to assasinate Hitler.
wDXE TIL that actor Andre Royo’s portrayal of the heroin addicted character “Bubbles” from The Wire was so good, that an actual Baltimore citizen gave Royo a vial of heroin on the streets in between shoots, saying, “you need a fix more than I do.” Royo calls it his “Street Oscar.”
PYE1w TIL babies open their eyes in the womb at about 28 weeks. After that, twins are likely to touch each others’ faces or hold hands.
1ykO TIL that from a century after the Norman invasion of England in 1066, social status there is more inheritable than height: “English people whose ancestors were elite in the 1100s are still likely part of the upper crust today”
Vdgp TIL that Bell distributed a manual cardboard computer to high school students in 1968 to teach them how computers work