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TIL that only seven states have banned mandatory microchipping of humans

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Owk7 TIL the famine in North Korea has been so bad in recent years, that people have been executed for selling human flesh
oBgKW TIL about Ol' Rip the Horned Toad. In 1897, a horned lizard was placed in a time capsule located in the Courthouse of Eastland, Texas along with other memorabilia. When the Courthouse was torn down 31 years later, the capsule was opened and Ol' Rip supposedly came back alive. He became a celebrity.
Z6JR TIL One of the most, if not the most, prolific serial killers in American history, continued getting work as a nurse from 1988 - 2003 due to a national nurse shortage even with extensive history of attempted suicide, documented mental instability and accused patient misconduct
b9w47 TIL the “Great Depression” did not originally refer to 1929, but instead to an earlier depression in 1873, later renamed the “Long Depression”
jgQ TIL Sonny Bono, Jason Lee, and even Charles Manson are/were scientologists, except Manson was the only one to call it “too crazy” and leave the church.