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TIL that there are only 420 Blobfish left in the world

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wLVyJ TIL that in 1996 a bill was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.
4k6ga TIL that in a cricket match in Bradford, England, all the 22 players involved were surnamed Patel as was the 15-year-old scorer
95WX TIL President McKinley was assassinated 113 years ago today. Shot by a crazed Polish anarchist, the the second bullet went through the President’s stomach and lodged near his back. The doctors didn’t find the bullet and McKinley died of gangrene eight days later.
d8Pp7 TIL There is an extant virus in the same genus as smallpox called Monkeypox which can also infect humans and causes a disease that looks like a milder version of smallpox, with a death rate of up to 10%
Lk6pZ TIL in 1993, Canada’s peacekeeping force in Somalia, the Airborne Regiment, brutally tortured and murdered a teenager. Once they returned, they were prosecuted, the regiment disbanded, and Canada’s military spending was reduced by 25%.