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TIL the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted 12-year-old leukemia survivor Declan McLean-Pauley’s wish to blow a bunch of shit up

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MxKA TIL that the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder named their cafeteria grill after Alferd G. Packer–a convicted cannibal. Their slogan: “Have a friend for lunch!”
AD0V4 TIL that if Skittles fail to make the grade they are fed to cattle as a cheap corn substitute.
xVQW5 TIL the Dilbert comic ran a story-line that was published around Easter about a new hire named Jesus, pronounced 'hey-soos', who was fired but returned three days later.
69Br7 TIL that during the 1960-70s, the Danish government had doctors fit intrauterine devices (IUDs) into thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women, without their knowledge or consent, as part of a program to control the indigenous birth rate in Greenland
XYA6 TIL Brain scanners can detect the brain making a decision 7 seconds before the person is aware of the choice, casting doubt upon the concept of “free will”