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TIL: Conspiracy theorist, David Icke was a professional footballer for Coventry City FC

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reGe TIL two teenagers were found dead in Mexico after they had unknowingly bullied the son of a cartel member at their high school.
DQGJj TIL Drinking very hot beverages is a probable carinogen
N7JWP TIL that a government funded Minecraft Replica of Denmark, intended for educational purposes, was bombed several times by American hackers using smuggled in game dynamite, after which they planted several US flags on detonation sites.
P1bye TIL Alfred Canning surveyed the 1900km Canning Stock Route through the Western Australian desert by capturing and chaining Indigenous people and force feeding them salt - coercing them to show the survey party the way to water. A Royal Commission exonerated the survey party of any wrongdoing.
78dmP TIL about Kimipuchi, a type of artificial egg invented by the Japanese conglomerate, Kewpie. These artificial eggs are used in premade convenience store bentos to mimic the texture of a half-cooked yolk and prevent salmonella poisoning from the use of actual eggs.