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TIL of “long egg”. Hard-boiled re-engineered eggs, 3 foot long (1 meter), used by the food service industry that yields a CONSISTENT amounts of yolk and equal size when sliced - also is easy to transport.

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9YNZX TIL In an effort to reduce the high number of suicides on South Korea’s Mapo Bridge, it was unofficially renamed the Bridge of Life. It was decorated with positive affirmations and even sympathetic sculptures. Suicides increased sixfold the following year.
JlA1 TIL that, to stop the theft of trees in public parks near Christmas time, some cities spray would-be Christmas trees with fox urine. It freezes and is odorless outdoors, but would be unbearable and irremovable if taken into someone’s home.
vjoK TIL When legendary African King Shaka Zulu’s mother died, He ordered no crops could be planted for the year, Pregnant women were to be killed, no milk was to be drank, and then slaughtered 7000 people who were insufficiently grief stricken.
l7Kk7 TIL that the song You Don't Mess Around With Jim is actually about Jim losing a fight