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TIL DNA testing showed that one in three fish sold at restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled as the wrong species.

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Lkmw0 TIL that Chloe Ayling was hired for a gig, was abducted in Milan, Italy, was told she would be sold as a sex slave, had rumors spread about her in 2017 that she faked it by the Daily Mail and is still accused of faking the abduction though her abductor was sentenced for 16 years in 2018.
woLr7 TIL that 'Meow Wolf' (immersive art collective that built the 'House of Eternal Return' in Santa Fe, Las Vegas Area 51 center, etc.) got its name by having all the founders put two scraps of paper with a word on each one in a hat, and the first two scraps drawn became the name of the collective
69LR7 TIL Most fans assume Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' is about a post apocalyptic world. But lyrics writer Dan Reynolds revealed in '21 it was actually about waking up in a new world after losing his faith in Mormonism.
ZpyX4 TIL Lady Gaga secretly swapped in "Fuck her face" for "Poker Face" during the chorus of the song with the same name. She later admitted that only Kiss FM in Los Angeles noticed the change and the song was played with the NSFW lyrics across the globe.
R7V91 TIL Anne Frank died of a typhus epidemic that ravaged Bergen-Belsen rather than by execution.