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TIL that PETA prefers kill shelters (“open admission”) over no-kill shelters.

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X0XQQ TIL of Doctor Fukushi Masaichi AKA "Dr. Tattoo" who would pay heavily tattooed people money for the right to preserve their tattooed skin after they died. He collected more than 2000 human pelts.
5YxwQ TIL that the Salem Witch Trials could have been just a really bad LSD trip as the rye bread they were eating was contaminated by a fungus called ergot which caused the consumer to spasm or hallucinate, leading people to blame witchcraft.
ePb6 TIL that Israeli secret service, the Mossad, hatched a plan in the 1950s to bomb areas in Egypt where Americans gathered, and make these attacks appear to be the work of Muslim extremists. The plot was discovered and it’s known as ‘The Lavon Affair’.
epwxg TIL that there’s a dragon in some versions of the Bible
x6KA5 TIL Obesity in young adult Americans rose from 33% to 41% from 2009 to 2020