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TIL cats prefer consuming human tissue during the relatively early stages of decomposition and will cease consumption when a corpse decays to the point of leaching bodily fluid.

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QkMX TIL that Boston has fewer people today than it did in 1910.
yE8a TIL There are more women over 30 who play video games than boys under 18 who play
Pjlw TIL of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a French saboteur during WWII. He once hid explosives inside loaves of bread and blew up a Nazi munitions plant. Captured, he feigned a seizure in his cell and when a guard opened the door, hit him with a table leg, broke his neck, shot 2 other guards and escaped.
n5db TIL McDonald’s Cooked their Fries in 93% Beef Fat (Tallow) until 1990, when they Switched to Vegetable Oil
XOQj TIL the British tabloid The Sun heavily criticized Prime Minister Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a deceased soldier in a letter of condolence to his mother. Brown apologized, and The Sun soon had to post an apology of its own for similarly misspelling the soldier’s name.