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TIL Black Americans are almost three times as likely to be vegan or vegetarian as other Americans

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OB1Y TIL that Nestle (and other baby formula manufactures) is responsible for the death of millions of babies in the Third World due to malnutrition.
Wk0eA TIL a pod of orcas hunted cooperatively with early Australian whalers under a "law of the tongue". They would corral and locate prey in return for the tongues and lips of captured whales. The arrangement ended when one of the orcas was accidentally killed.
67w7 TIL: A 33-year-old mother took the place of her 15-year-old daughter to attend high school and join the cheerleading team.
1avxP TIL about the "Bielefeld conspiracy", that says the German city Bielefeld doesn't exist. This story was created by students in 1994 as an internet post, to show the spreading and argumentation of conspiracy theories. Today it is a longtime running gang in whole Germany.
ADAgg TIL Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of an Army bus, 11 years before Rosa Parks.