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TIL In Texas it is legal to hunt feral hogs from helicopters, and they call it "pork chopping"

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wooM7 TIL about the Ibadan forest of horror, in which peoples bodyparts were harvested to be sold for ritual sacrifice.
GweQ TIL 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.
grmQy TIL of Antonio Meucci, an Italian American who invented the telephone, but economic problems and his difficulty in communicating in English prevented him from being recognized as its inventor
6EaRl TIL: Alice Crook, a PhD student, analyzed Presbyterian records from 62,456 children born in Scotland between 1680 and 1839. She found middle names rare until about 1780 when their popularity began to rise dramatically—almost 99% of children in her sample who had middle names were born after 1780.
0dk75 TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building