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TIL Sweden has virtually eradicated Salmonella

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78ZbP TIL Bob Seger’s Old Time Rock and Roll was released in 1978, which means he was singing about music that was ~20 years old. That’s like a song today saying The White Stripes and Modest Mouse were the pinnacle of music.
R7lg6 TIL Roman Emperor Commodus once round up citizens of Rome that were missing their feet through illness or accident and tethered them together for Commodus to club to death while pretending they were giants.
jANN TIL since Chinese isn’t alphabetized, looking up words is so tricky that China doesn’t have spelling bees, they have contests just to find words in the dictionary
9YVOm TIL in the 1960s, a woman found the head of an axe, a gashed skull, and macabre sketches of murder victims in an iron tub in her attic. It turned out to be the evidence from the Lizzie Borden murder trial- her father had been Lizzie’s lawyer, and she’d given him the evidence after her acquittal.
N8d1 TIL that, while filming an episode of a reality TV show in Doncaster prison, chef Gordon Ramsay was so impressed by the speed at which a prisoner chopped vegetables that Ramsay offered him a job at his restaurant following his release in 2007