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TIL a man died from cracking his own neck

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ZmyQ TIL that the term ‘sour grapes’ originates from the Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes” (620–564 BCE), in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. The moral that accompanies the story is that “any fool can despise what he can not get”.
9w8bM TIL The US Food & Drug Administration has a limit on the number of mites on cheese. The FDA allows 6 mites per cubic inch of cheese because some people are allergic to eating arachnids
pYm98 TIL Ted Bundy briefly worked at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Center
DQmYJ TIL One of the reasons Germany didn’t develop nuclear weapons first during World War II was due to the Norwegian heavy water sabotage. In 1943, Norwegian resistance fighters launched a daring attack on the Vemork hydroelectric plant, which was producing heavy water essential for Germany's atomic bom
ADe1o TIL Tobacco companies in India literally target kids by placing adverts at their eye level, not adults.