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TIL that Christopher Columbus ran a sex slave ring among other atrocities.

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R7bX8 TIL lobster’s brain is located in its throat, nervous system in abdomen, teeth in stomach and kidneys in head, hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed
LyvQ TIL Gregory W. Nemitz registered land on asteroid 433 Eros and sent NASA a $20 parking ticket for landing on parking space #29 when they landed a probe on the asteroid in 2000.
GP6g TIL that more than 20 people died in 1998 after being given synthetic blood in an FDA approved ‘no consent study’. Patients were selected at the accident scene or en route to the hospital to receive the fake blood.
QJb0e TIL Pepperidge Farm (cookie brand) was founded by a woman named Margaret Rudkin. She got into baking due to her son's severe asthma and his allergies to most processed foods. After her success selling her baked goods, she sold the company to Campbell's and became their first female board member.
4BAa TIL That P.Sherman from Finding Nemo is a pun of the word fisherman, since most of the production crew was Filipino, this is how they pronounced it naturally with their accents.