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TIL: 'Breakfast is the most important meal of the day' was marketing slogan

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N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.
oRvrr TIL that there is a vast illegal black market for blood in India. Selling blood and paying donors in India is illegal, but across the country, a vast "red market" proliferates. People are even kept prisoner in 'Blood Farms' and harvested for their blood.
XEQRk TIL Roughly 90% of the world's cargo is actually moved by sea, rather than the world's roadways
vPwLr TIL Asian Fishing does not mean Asian people fishing
v1wm7 TIL When a billionaire resident dies, states reap an average $165 million windfall from estate taxes