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TIL The McRib is made using a process invented by the US Army to create low cost meat for soldiers

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VMkvB TIL Divine Brown used the money stemming from her liasion with Hugh Grant to get her out of prostitution and get her kids into private school.
xZ5D TIL A scientist had to name an octopus species. She thought it was “just so cute” she considered opisthatoothus ADORABILis
bMPa TIL that weird smell on your hands after you handle coins isn’t the smell of the coins, it’s an odour produced by your skin oil decomposing on contact with the metal.
aXMb TIL that while the U.S. was researching nuclear devices, there was a certain sphere of plutonium dubbed the “Demon Core,” as it went supercritical and killed two scientists on two different occasions as they were studying it.
glX8 TIL that a girl in Iran gave birth at the age of 9 after being prostituted by her parents. When she was 19, she was sentenced to death for incest and prostitution, until a lawyer intervened and had her sentence reduced to public beating and imprisonment.