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TIL PETA thinks Pokemon promotes animal cruelty

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5XVp TIL the largest mall in the world by gross leasable area is in China - and it’s 99% empty
E1DM7 TIL of a woman named Olympe de Gouges who advocated for equal rights between men and women in revolutionary France. She was guillotined.
D1DEP TIL The artificial sweetener Glycerol is a strong sanitizer that is FDA approved for burns and wounds. It is even used to store skin grafts between transplant surgery.
14Zd TIL that methamphetamine was nicknamed panzerschokolade (“tank chocolate”) during WWII because of how common it was used among German soldiers
69la8 TIL that, for the 20th anniversary rerelease of Massive Attack’s classic album Mezzanine, they became the first band to release their album by encoding it into DNA.