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TIL Pork rectums are ample substitutes for calamari and some places serve it as "imitation calamari"

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ZMlo TIL there was a child prodigy who spoke his first words at 4 months and graduated college with a degree in Anthropology at 10 years old.
e04j6 TIL: After Ralph Nader Published "Unsafe at any Speed" in 1965, General Motors kept trying to discredit him, including hiring a prostitute to seduce him, but he turned her away. So they hired detectives to prove he was gay, but they were caught when Nader entered Congress and they tried to follow.
VBj70 TIL in 2018 after a man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' auctioneer Dan Dotson, he discovered a safe within it contained $7.5m in cash. When the original owners of the unit found out, they first offered him $600K to return the rest of the loot, but settled on giving him $1.2m.
mwDY TIL more board games are sold per capita in Germany than anywhere else. The country’s newspapers review board games alongside movies and books, and the annual board game convention draws more than 150,000 fans. Its “Spiel des Jahres” annual game award is considered the industry’s highest award.
Y7jXx TIL that Black History month’s origin is from Black History Week starting in 1926. The 2nd week of February was picked bc of the Feb birthdays of President Lincoln and F. Douglass, who were regarded back then as pioneers for civil rights. Black History month was then formally adopted in 1976.