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TIL Elijah Wood spoke of an organized child sex abuse in Hollywood (before the Weinstein and #MeToo incidents)

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ADpBw TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.
GYWJ7 TIL that Ontario’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, it’s illegal to sell wild game in restaurants. Some pass off game such as duck, boar or deer as wild when listing it on a menu — but if it’s for sale in a restaurant, it’s farmed.
69d4l TIL one of P.T. Barnum’s promotions featured a “6 Foot-Tall Man Eating Chicken,” which was actually a 6-foot-tall man munching on a chicken leg.
8ebZZ TIL about bully sticks, a type of dog treat that is made out of stretched, twisted, and dried bull pizzle or penis.
D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.