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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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6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
Oox1R TIL President Dési Bouterse of Suriname is still in office despite being sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing political opponents by a Surinamese court. He has immunity as president and has appealed the decision.
VBlnD TIL about The Sweatbox, a documentary about the making of The Emperor’s New Groove. Produced by Sting’s wife, it was never released by Disney due to the unprecedented access to their creative process, which was uncharacteristically rushed and improvised for this project.
ep44J TIL that the Zodiac Killer supposedly wrote a complaint to the San Francisco Chronicle that the 1973 movie "Badlands" was "murder-glorification" and asked the paper to cut it's advertisements
neJ6d TIL of Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who escaped certain death by molding his own faeces into a knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice.