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TIL Takeru Kobayashi retired from competitive eating because he says he no longer feels hunger or fullness.

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jWkM TIL Henery Shrapnel in 1784 invented a hollow cannon ball that would be filled with shot and gun powder,and exploded over the enemies
JY8G8 TIL when Steve Madden was convicted of fraud and forced to resign as CEO of his company, he created a new position for himself that paid $700k per year while he was in prison.
xE9o TIL that 1.3 million pints of donated blood spoil every year since blood only has a 40 day shelf life.
e0nZD TIL that Sloth from the Goonies played for several NFL teams before his acting career, was a raging drug addict, and died at 38.
8DaP TIL in 1958, Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people to kill all the sparrows in the country to protect the rice crops. The effort backfired as, without the sparrows to eat insects, the locust population exploded and wiped out food crops, contributing to the starvation of tens of millions of people.