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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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OGDwR TIL The Nile's water discharge is only about 1% the size of the Amazon River. That's 2,600 m3/s (93,000 cu ft/s) of water for a 110 million Egyptians.
neeB TIL Keanu Reeves has lived a terribly depressing life…
VMjp0 TIL Mr. Goodbar was created in response to the Great Depression. It was marketed as a "meal replacement bar" for lunch and allowed the Hershey company to be one of the only major companies to not lay off a single employee.
rNLp4 TIL most Samsung Galaxy phones lets users make an emergency 911 call by quickly pressing the side button 5 times then swiping up. It's safe to test as long as you don't swipe up afterwards.
pY4MO TIL that divorce is illegal in two places in the world: Philippines (except Muslims who have the right to divorce) and the Vatican City, an ecclesiastical sovereign city-state, which has no procedure for divorce.