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TIL that certain Popeye’s locations in the South serve fried chicken livers. They aren’t the healthiest option - one serving of Popeye’s chicken livers contains a whopping 765mg of cholesterol. (For reference, eating a stick of butter would be 243mg of cholesterol.)

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gM1e7 TIL: Before filming Bringing Out The Dead (1999), Nicolas Cage did a ride along with real paramedics. Early in the shift, a young adult was shot (in the butt). To prevent choking, Cage pulled the gum out of his mouth at which point the patient recognized Cage but thought he was hallucinating.
ADVZ4 TIL that instead of Santa, Catalonia has Tio de Nadal the shitting Christmas log. Traditionally, a family brings a log inside and the children “feed” it before Christmas. Then on Christmas Day they literally beat the shit out it, because if they fed it well enough it will shit out presents.
r5r1 TIL that being in international waters does not make you immune to prosecution
gno8 TIL that the drug cartels are capturing technicians and making them build a private cell phone network
OaKg TIL there was a 20 meter shark that preyed regularly on whales and other large prey. They were such efficient killers that they ran out of food and had to resort to cannibalism, effectively eating themselves into extinction.