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TIL that Alan Ritchson, of Reacher fame, auditioned on American Idol Season 3, and actually passed the initial stage.

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rRPZ4 TIL about Dumah, the angel of silence and of the stillness of death, in Rabbinical and Islamic literature. Dumah is described as the thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword, having authority over the wicked dead. Dumah is also the Aramaic word for silence.
mxYmY TIL The reason infants can't eat honey is because it contains botulism spores which their digestive systems aren't developed enough to prevent from developing.
mxJZY TIL that since 2004, the Chicago Police Department has detained and "disappeared" at least 6,000 people, primarily through "essentially a domestic blacksite", an unlisted police facility contained within a warehouse.
QJlBe TIL Eddie Bauer, the Seattle based founder of the outdoor clothing company, invented and patented the badminton shuttlecock that is used today in regulation play
NXbdM TIL that in 2016, France legislated a Food Waste Law that bans supermarkets from wasting unsold food. It mandates that supermarkets must compost their leftover produce, or donate the goods to charity.