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TIL Kraft Singles cannot legally be referred to as ‘Cheese’.

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Rek9 TIL Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart and carried it with her for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. It was found in a desk drawer a year later, wrapped in a copy of one of his final poems.
GAm65 TIL about Ernst Reuter who was captured by Russians in WWI, joined the Revolution and became chairman of an autonomous German Soviet Republic, returned to Germany & politics, got sent to a concentration camp and exiled to Turkey, and then returned to be mayor of West Berlin during the Berlin Airdrop
1nKd TIL that in 2012 the Brighton, CO police department swore in their youngest officer, a 12 year old boy with terminal cancer that had dreamed of becoming a cop.
698XW TIL of Matthew Hopkins. A witch hunter who (Along with his colleague John Stearne) put so many people on trial for witchcraft that they beat out every witch Hunter of the last 160 years and single-handedly spiked executions from 1644 to 1647. Over 300 women.
nLAo TIL that an estimated that 90 percent of the body’s serotonin is made in the digestive tract