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TIL Kosher salt isn’t necessarily certified as Kosher, but refers to the style of salt (large grains) which was used to make meat Kosher.

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9YwED TIL Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is so riddled with drugs even the rats overdose.
8ayob TIL about body snatchers aka "resurrection men", paid men that were ought to do grave-robbing. These men provided a number of schools with cadavers, and members of the schools would use influence to keep these men out of jail. People (alive) used Railings to protect graves from body snatchers.
9YjVB TIL That the term Peeping Tom came from the story of Lady Godiva since he was the only person to look at her during her naked ride through Coventry
wDmM TIL saying the same word over and over until it loses it’s meaning is a real thing called semantic satiation
N7NQJ TIL from 1935-1964 in the US all liquor bottles were required to have the phrase “Federal Law Forbids Sale or Reuse of this bottle”. This was done in an effort to discourage the reuse of empty bottles for selling moonshine, the sale of which was very common during the Prohibition era.