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TIL it was illegal to sell beef-on-the-bone in the UK between 1997 and 1999, in an attempt to limit the spread of mad cow disease

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8epnb TIL Murder, Inc. was a 1930s-1940s organized crime group responsible for an estimated 400-1,000 contract killings, serving as the enforcement arm for the National Crime Syndicate, until key members turned informants, leading to its eventual dismantling.
PYDRL TIL that Washington’s first love was the wife of one of his best friends
oBWoW TIL that in 1997, dockers in Oakland, Vancouver, Yokohama and Kobe refused to work a scab ship from Liverpool in solidarity with 500 Liverpool dockers who were sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. There is no confirmation of what finally happened to those containers.
8XvV TIL the fedora tip meme guy was a character in freaks and geeks
mxdQp TIL that in 2015, Christopher Ingraham of Washington Post wrote an article about Red Lake County in Minnesota being "the absolute worst place to live in America." The unhappy county residents invited the reporter to come visit. He liked it so much, less than 1 year later he moved his family there.