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TIL the catholic church decided baby rabbits aren’t meat
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TIL that a study from 2011-2015 of 160,000 adults from 31 countries concluded that teens who had lower levels of secondary education but who came from homes filled with books became as literate, numerate and technologically apt in adulthood as university graduates who grew up with only a few books.
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TIL of the post WWII "Return of the Dead" program, in which the bodies of 171,000 fallen US servicemen were returned to the United States, and another 110,000 were reburied in 14 new military cemeteries overseas, according to family wishes. The program cost $164 million, about $1.8 billion today.
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TIL that honey is a natural reservoir for the Botulism bacteria. Adult bodies can normally process it. This is why you shouldn’t give babies honey.
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TIL after Ringo Starr publically claimed that he missed nothing about Liverpool, a hedge statue of Ringo in Liverpool got its head chopped off.
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TIL about the six degrees of separation. It is the idea that all people on average are six social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of a friend of a friend statement can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes