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TIL Jello is made used farm animals.

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4XgD6 TIL that there are over 20,000 adults suffering from congenital rubella syndrome in the USA after their mums caught Rubella in the 60s. They suffer deafness, blindness and neurological problems.
8G1P TIL the extra who gets grabbed by the hair and has his neck snapped by Bruce Lee in this classic fight scene from “Enter The Dragon” is none other than Jackie Chan, and this was the first and only time the two ever appeared in film together.
Y7Wwv TIL the Darfur conflict in Sudan started out as a conflict between the nomadic Janjaweed and the sedentary population in Darfur over grazing grounds and arable farmland, exacerbated by dwindling rainfall and droughts.
0BJR TIL that when 16 year old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in 1973, his billionaire grandfather refused to pay $17 million ransom. After the kidnappers mailed Getty’s ear to a newspaper, his grandfather only agreed to pay $2.2 million because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible.
J1gPj TIL People born in American Samoa, which has been held by the United States for more than 120 years, are not automatically citizens of the United States.