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TIL that the FDA regulates pet food like they do human food, and it has to be edible by humans!

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gW8 TIL That Americans Are As Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture As by Terrorism
AD0o7 TIL of a brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1858 that involved over 30 members and ended in laughter and jeers after William Barksdale of Mississippi had his hair piece ripped off.
jNb7X TIL that A team of paleontologists has discovered 17 million-year-old sperm inside tiny shrimp fossils encased in bat guano on the walls of a cave in Queensland, Australia
VBBWB TIL About the Wowowee stampede that killed 73 people and injured 400 when a game show employee announced that only the first 300 people out of the 30,000 that showed up would get tickets the the popular Filipino game show Wowowee.
ANgn4 TIL Marine Electric sank in 1983 and 31 of its crew died but 3 survived for 90 minutes in frigid water. The wreck led to a number of reforms such as more stringent coast guard inspections of ships, mandatory survival suits for north atlantic runs and the famous US coast guard rescue swimmer program