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TIL that, due to precession, the dates of Zodiac's signs should be shifted to a month back with respect to when they where defined around 2000 years ago

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yQ18e TIL Metallica's catering rider for their 2004 tour repeatedly stated in all-caps that it was very important to have bacon available at every meal and throughout the day.
R7eP6 TIL in 2012 a Bumblebee foods worker was accidentally cooked alive in 12,000 lbs of tuna because his co-worker thought he was in the bathroom
AZBw TIL that Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is a current bestseller in India, and many Indians believe him to be a more respectable role-model than Gandhi.
woZvW TIL that the modern three-point safety belt was perfected by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 – and its patent given for free to the world. The invention has been credited with saving at least a million lives worldwide.
mx5LE TIL Canadian Indigenous incarceration rates are 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous population. Higher than South Africa at the height of apartheid. In Saskatchewan, if you’re Indigenous, you’re 33 times more likely to be incarcerated than than the non-Indigenous.