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TIL: Jewish law prohibits the separation of stuck-together newspaper pages on the Sabbath as it constitutes “applying the finishing touch” (one of the 39 activities prohibited on this day).

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577B TIL In 2006, China slaughtered 50,000 dogs after three people died of rabies. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot. Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the beating teams were sent in.
BEjL TIL that a 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession.
VMJnB TIL that the M&M’s candies are named as such to represent ‘Mars’ and ‘Murrie’, the last names of the candy’s founders.
nk9o TIL - There are approx. 10 quintillion (that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 for those who like actual numbers) insects on our planet - or roughly 200 million insects for each human.
eWkk TIL that in the US, in order to be legally called “chocolate”, a product must contain cocoa butter. Phrases like “chocolatey” and “chocolate flavored” are used for products that do not contain cocoa butter, but instead use other vegetable oils. These have a different taste than “real chocolate”.