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TIL that bacon has enough energy to melt metal

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P15an TIL twenty six people have died from chiropractic spinal manipulation.
npdG TIL that “Third World” countries are not defined by their economy or development. Instead they are all the countries that were neither aligned with the US and its allies (first world) nor the USSR and its allies (second world) during the Cold War.
XxjR TIL as a preteen while horseback riding, Bryan Cranston and his counsin encountered Charles Manson, one year before the Tate-LaBianca murders
x6OEB TIL in 1859, an Australian man named Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits for hunting on his estate. With no natural predators, they multiplied so rapidly that within a few decades, they overran Australia, causing massive ecological damage and leading to one of the largest control efforts in history.
rGvy TIL that some people greatly dislike the herb coriander (cilantro), saying that it it smells like soap and tastes like crushed bugs. This reaction has been linked to a set of genes in the human genome.