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TIL that 17th century Londoners had a phrase for people who gained office and failed to use their new income to treat their friends: Bread and Cheese Constables

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e0Lbg TIL cows are often fed chicken litter which contains chicken poop, and chickens are often fed crushed bone meal, which can be crushed cow bones, and all this can lead to the spread of mad cow disease
dMDj TIL that buried within the code of GoldenEye for the N64 is a fully-functional ZX Spectrum console emulator complete with ten games. It wasn’t discovered until 2012.
WgRo TIL that Halliburton was forced to pay only $200,000 in fines following the firm’s willful destruction of incriminating evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
1amXV TIL That of "Rabbit Starvation" where you can waste away and even die if you're eating meat with little to no fat on it
kOxNd TIL On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs shot her three children and drove them at 5-7 mph to the hospital. Her 7 yr old daughter was already dead, her other 2 children were in critical condition. She'd also shot herself in the forearm. She claimed she'd been carjacked. She was sentenced to life plus 50 yrs