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R7RrQ TIL: Johnathan Swift wrote a satirical essay in 1729 where he proposes that poor Irish should sell their children as food for rich people to eat.
ja7Q TIL Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel in which a group of shipwrecked survivors draw lots in which the loser will be eaten, the boy who lost was named Richard Parker. 50 years later an English ship sank & the survivors drew lots, the losers name was Richard Parker.
wLrwo TIL that in 2019, a mammoth tusk hunter found a perfectly preserved 32,000 year-old wolf head
GVAE TIL that after seeing the documentary “Blackfish” about Killer Whales in captivity, Pixar executives have changed the ending to “Finding Dory”, the 2016 sequel to “Finding Nemo”.
RD09 TIL Welfare currently pays more than a minimum-wage job in 35 states, even after accounting for the Earned Income Tax Credit, and in 13 states it pays more than $15 per hour.