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TIL Australians have a diet trend called “Kangatarianism” that focuses on eating only kangaroo meat for environmental reasons

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OGkN6 TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous breakdown and never acted again.
1QB4 TIL of Jeffrey Stockbridge, a photographer who takes pictures of prostitutes and drug-addicts from Kensington, a neighborhood in Philadelphia known for its drug abuse.
pY4xp TIL that chickens are sometimes cannibals.
wdy1 TIL Medieval Catholic doctrine held that cross-dressing should be evaluated based on context and that necessity would be a permissible reason for cross-dressing. (which made Joan d'Arc innocent)
7rPgP TIL when scientist say we are in a "hologram" they mean the information defining the organization of matter has been stored in some form (like on a blackholes surface) even though the matter no longer represents that information in our universe