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TIL: In 17th century Holland, several Dutch cities banned gingerbread figures due to their use as effigys.

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OGJJa TIL Kiviak is a traditional food from Greenland that is made of little seabird packed and fermented in a seal skin. Up to 500 whole birds, beaks and feathers included, are packed into the seal skin and then hidden in a heap of stones and left to ferment over the course of three months.
6WmW TIL There is a video game, called “Lose/Lose” that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
xVGl0 TIL Chris Rock’s marriage fell apart in large part to his porn addiction, “I became sexually autistic”.
QNEZE TIL that Marlin Brando popularised wearing t-shirts as an outfit from his role in A Streetcar Named Desire. Before then it was commonplace to wear a t-shirt as an undergarment.
6gvX TIL Ronald Reagan was instrumental in passing the Assault Weapons ban in 1994 and was a major proponent of gun control after the assassination attempt on his life.