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TIL Vinegar isn't just added to sushi rice for flavor, it's to prevent the growth of harmful pathogens

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BgeNb TIL For decades sideshow performers showcased a real deceased man in their show "The Outlaw Who Would Never Be Captured Alive". The man in question was killed in a shootout in 1911. He was displayed in this show until 1976 when he was rediscovered, and finally laid to rest in 1977.
d8geQ TIL that between years 4000 and 3500 BCE the Tripolye culture centered around modern Moldova in Eastern Europe have built the largest settlements in the world at the time, inhabited by 20,000 to 46,000 people. Cities of this size only reappeared in Mesopotamia a millenium later.
9Yyjm TIL: In Bronx Zoo, a pigmy man was put in cage by the so called scientific community for others to see and he was considered less than a human. This continued till the man killed himself.
QNQ8L TIL After poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the perpetrators disposed of the evidence (disguised as a perfume bottle) in a rubbish bin. The bottle was recovered and brought home where a woman applied it to her skin and she later died
VpjQ TIL Retired AFL legend Tom Hafey wakes up at 5.20am every morning and does an 8km run, 250 push ups and 700 crunches. He is 82.