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TIL Cannibalism is legal in the Netherlands

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jPBQ TIL of a male contraceptive (birth control) that is 100% effective, easily reversible, and is made up of a single shot, every 10 years.
DQYnD TIL That Domino's retired their mascot “The Noid” after Kenneth Lamar Noid, a paranoid schizophrenic man who believed the character was meant to mock him, held a Domino's hostage in 1989. The mascot was recently brought back as part of a tie-in with a Crash Bandicoot mobile game.
JR4 TIL Erwin Rommel did not want Hitler to be assassinated, fearing he would become a martyr, and that it would spark civil war in Germany and Austria. Instead he wanted him tried for his crimes.
jNX6R TIL that Sean Astin (LOTR, Goonies etc) is the adopted son of John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)
6ZBl TIL in ‘86 a California farmer named Mike Yurosek was unhappy he was not able to sell his imperfect carrots. So he cut and shaved them into cuter versions and called them “baby-cut” carrots. Before the invention of the baby carrot, each American ate 6 lbs of carrot a year, now they eat 11 lbs.