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TIL that Winston Churchill made a speech in the early 1930s in which, among other things, he explained the inefficiency of meat production and promoted lab-grown meat

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dD7eZ TIL about Richard Huckle, described as Britain's most depraved paedophile. He had done his crime for more than a decade and had photographed and recorded his crimes. While he was serving his time, he was brutally tortured and murdered by another inmate who intended to cook and eat him.
WQ7X TIL that the Swedish state financially support TOR, the backbone of the Deep Web and anonymous surfing
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