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TIL There's a company in England that makes ice cream from breast milk.

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0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
l7pJB TIL: You can only bring five speficic fruits on a plane to the EU - Coconuts, Durians, Pineapples, Dates and Bananas
0wmdA TIL during the 1993 Yukon Quest sled dog race, musher Jeff Mann killed a moose with an axe after it attacked him and his dog team.
Y7av7 TIL of Portable Soup, also known as pocket soup or veal glue. A precursor of meat extract, bouillon cubes, and of industrially dehydrated and instant food, it is essentially a partially dehydrated broth and a solid counterpart of meat glaze.
4krxo TIL from 1066 to 1971 in England a pound was worth 20 shillings, each worth 12 pennies, each worth 2 halfpennies, each worth 2 farthings, plus thruppence, sixpence, florin, half crown, and crown