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TIL of Jose Luis Ochoa, who died after being stabbed in the leg by a cock with a knife attached to its limb, during an illegal cockfight in California

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6xgQ TIL a team sets up a polling booth in an isolated forest in India each election so that a lone priest who lives there can vote, because the Election Commission mandates that no voter should “ordinarily travel more than 2km to reach the booth.”
evbD TIL that in March 2012, scientist and blogger Jonathan Corbett demonstrated the ineffectiveness of full body scanners by publishing a viral video showing how he was able to get a metal box through backscatter x-ray and millimeter wave scanners in two US airports.
4wRo TIL Hannibal Lecter was making a medical joke with his famous “ate his liver with fava beans and a nice chianti” line: three foods that interact negatively with older kinds of antidepressant meds are liver, beans and wine.
W71ML TIL 75% of food consumed worldwide is made by only 6 companies
x6Qxb TIL in 1954 during a football (soccer) game, over 10,000 people witnessed a purported UFO.