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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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69mVX TIL That there have been some really bizarre reality TV concepts over the years, nobody was really interested in them though.
JKR4 TIL A single Google search requires more computing power than it took to send Neil Armstrong and eleven other astronauts to the moon
5YZgp TIL In 1940 9,169 British people were killed in road traffic accidents during the wartime blackout. One person died that year for every 200 vehicles on the road; today the figure is one for every 20,000.
a8DB9 TIL that Titanic survivor Jack Thayer wrote an account of the sinking in 1940, that was so accurate that it helped Robert Ballard pinpoint where the wreck of the ship was.
4XNMa TIL that Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser was once awoken to a report of 2,200 incoming Soviet missiles: a false alarm due to the malfunction of a 46 cent chip