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TIL Chinese companies have been caught making tofu out of sewage and marinating meat in goat urine.

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WoPY TIL that in 2009 Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” when confronted about the search engine’s privacy policies.
4k8Za TIL 18th century painter Theodoor Wilkens was sketching the ruins of an town in Rome with a crowd watching him. The crowd's movement on the edge of the town caused a building to collapse. The crowd concluded that he was practicing witchcraft and he had to storm out of the city.
LLZ TIL that when Rudolph Diesel produced his engine in 1896, he assumed that it would run off of vegetable and seed oils - especially hemp.
8aMgL TIL after dropping out, it took director Steven Spielberg 33 years to earn a bachelor’s degree from Cal State Long Beach. In 2002, he submitted "Schindler’s List" to satisfy his most important film school requirement.
0mXR TIL The Ravens at the Tower of London are treated as enlisted soldiers and have been discharged in the past for “unsatisfactory conduct”