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Today I learned that most gelatin ( used to make gummy things and jello) is made from boiling cow's skin, ligaments and bone

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16BaV TIL that in Starship Troopers (1997) the crew used over 300,000 blank rounds. Thought to be a record at the time and due the following years of CGI, the record probably has never been broken.
jMnn TIL Hazel McCallion (91) of Mississauga has been mayor there for 34 years. Among her many accolades, she once talked someone out of suicide by telling them the police and paramedics had more important things they could be doing.
QRYk TIL one of the the bizarre effects of hypothermia is “Paradoxical Undressing” where the victim removes their clothes, speeding up heat loss.
KOR59 TIL The world is made by the left-brained (right handed), prefers denotative language, what is known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit. A right hemisphere (left handed) modus operandi would yield a changing, evolving, linked, implicit world, the living not the mechanical.
16VDO TIL that the largest 4th of July celebration outside of the US occurs in Rebild National Park in Denmark. The park was donated to the Danish government on the condition that it would serve as a place where Danish-Americans could celebrate American holidays