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TIL: PBS reported on a study which details which part of a human body you should eat first that provides the most nutritional value using 4 dead bodies. Ignore kidneys, pancreas, and teeth and aim for the butt muscles, thighs, and skin. The researcher found it difficult to eat bacon afterwards.

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p8vob TIL a man lived with a bullet in his head for five years after forgetting he was shot at party. When presented with the bullet, the man recalled he had received a blow to the head around midnight at a New Year's party 5 years prior but had forgotten about it because he had been "very drunk"
aWP9 TIL that the cast and crew of Borat nearly started a riot during the filming of the rodeo scene where Borat sings the (made up) Kazakhstan national Anthem to the tune of the American national anthem.
XElkQ TIL that Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn, Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2 and 3, Chloe Price in Life is Strange, and Miss Pauling in Team Fortress 2, are all voice-acted by the same person. The actress's name is Ashly Burch.
9wMKM TIL in 1999 the pizza chain Pizza Hut asked 50 U.S. governors to name their favourite books from childhood. The then-governor of Texas, Bush, named The Very Hungry Caterpillar, despite having been of college age at the time of its publication.
7rJ5L TIL a separatist movement in the 60% German-speaking Italian province of South Tyrol advocates the region's reunification with neighboring Austria. Italy was incentivized to enter World War I when a treaty permitted absorbing Tyrol. It was ceded in reparations, breaking Woodrow Wilson's promise.