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TIL pig rectum MIGHT be used in some restaurants as calamari. NPR did a blind taste test and could not tell the difference.

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E1VQd TIL Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of MI5 and the first to pose for photos in that role.
089y TIL that it was after Christiano Ronaldo got expelled from school for throwing a chair at a teacher that he decided to devote his life to playing soccer.
ykBv TIL The 52 Playing cards in a deck represent the 52 weeks in a year. The 4 suits represent the 4 seasons.
XW98 TIL 1-3% of people are equipped with a mutated gene called hDEC2 which allows their body to get the rest it requires from just a few hours of sleep.
beVN TIL baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash on New Year’s Eve 1972 while trying to deliver food and relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He had exactly 3,000 hits in his professional career.