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TIL that from 2012-2013, large and precisely cut pieces of flesh were found in sewers by workers on 3 separate occasions. These pieces were DNA tested and found out to be chunks of flesh from an unknown human being. There is no culprit to date

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NK91 TIL that a town called Sweetwater, Texas, as well as most of the Southeast, hold a form of a rattlesnake holocaust each year and have been doing so since about 1939.
KY81a TIL that acarophenacidae mites mate inside the body of their mother before they are born. Normally one male develops per mother. He develops slightly faster than his sisters and inseminates them.
negxo TIL SIM card is not just an ordinary piece of read-only memory. It's a separate micro-computer with its own environment capable of running Java Card applets
7rmeX TIL that as an alternative Jewish Homeland to then British Palestine, Stalin's USSR set aside a small part of Siberia as a Jewish autonomous region. While largely unsuccessful the autonomous region still exists today. A collective farm was even called "Stalinfeld"
knZd TIL that “Koko, a female gorilla trained in sign language, once tore a steel sink out of its moorings. When her handlers confronted her, Koko signed ‘cat did it’ and pointed at her innocent pet kitten.”