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TIL that sex trafficker Andrew Tate’s father was an international chess master

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DQepr TIL that Sussex's administrative subdivisions are called 'rapes'.
9XQX TIL:DNA barcoding was used to discover that of 1215 seafood samples from 674 restaurants and grocery stores in 21 U.S. states, a full third were mislabeled; The menu says red snapper, but it’s actually tilapia. The white tuna, meanwhile, is really escolar, while the seabass is Antarctic toothfish.
x4dB TIL that Vegemite is actually the leftover concentrated yeast mixture from the bottom of alcohol barrels.
epOEL TIL that Although they are languages from different cultures, Icelandic (spoken in Iceland) and Bengali (spoken in Bangladesh and India) are part of the same family (Indo-European).
rNA4x TIL that the "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis is currently being investigated for violence and coercion.