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TIL that pound for pound, beef liver is so nutrient-dense, it surpasses any meat, fruit or vegetable in terms of nutritional content. Simply speaking, it’s the most nutritious food you can eat. The protein it contains is also of the highest quality of any meat.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 05:33AM by UtahLoveBaby
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TIL that the Doors' drummer John Densmore vetoed an offer by Cadillac of $15 million to use "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" for advertisement, citing lead singer Jim Morrison's historic and vehement opposition to licensing the Doors' music
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 03:50AM by Slats7
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TIL that in 1967, the Tax Court of the United States ruled, over IRS protests, that catching a baseball one‐handed was so remarkable and valuable a technique that a player was justified in deducting as a business expense a cash payment to his father as compensation for teaching him
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 04:15AM by rjohnstone13
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TIL that a new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa — it constitutes an entirely new kingdom.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 11:04AM by sykate
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TIL that in Marvel comics, The Beatles are actually a group of rogue skrulls who came to Earth to invade it but decided that the money and power was better.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 06:12AM by overoof
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TIL that the entire liver of a Polar Bear contains enough vitamin A to kill as many as 52 adult humans
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 07:25AM by Slats7
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TIL during the meltdown, Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 12:34PM by HydrolicKrane
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TIL that there is a place on Earth known as “Point Nemo” that is so far away from any island or mainland that the closest people to that point are actually the astronauts on the International Space Station.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 03:08PM by GucciGacci
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TIL After the sack of Baghdad, the Caliph was surrendered to the Mongols on the belief that their practices prevented them from shedding the blood of a man of such a high royal and religious status. Sure enough, the Mongols kept to their custom by wrapping him in a rug and trampling him to death
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 03:38PM by Mr_Westerfield
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TIL In 1987 Corona was hit by the piss scandal. A rumour that Mexicans brewers were peeing in beer heading to the US market. The rumour was traced back to a Heineken distributor.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 03:36PM by maestroenglish
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TIL that in 1965, 21 yr old Al Kooper bluffed his way into the studio where Bob Dylan was recording Highway 61 Revisited. Although he didn't know how to play the Hammond organ or even turn it on, his improvised intro & off the beat riffs became the signature groove & sound of "Like A Rolling Stone".
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 04:26PM by TrixyUkulele
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TIL that hundreds of US agents during the cold war were caught due to their fake soviet passports. It was later discovered that it was due to the stainless-steel staples used in these forged passports, unlike the soviet ones which corroded very easily.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 07:17PM by wadzzzzzz
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TIL the first recorded pizza delivery was in 1889 to Queen Margherita of Savoy. Reportedly, she was tired of courtly fare and requested a local peasant meal; they delivered a white, green, and red pie to symbolize the newly unified Italy's flag. She called it "delicious" and the rest is history.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 07:24PM by jpmaze16
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TIL that a Spanish town mailed dog poop back to offenders. A team of volunteers looked for careless dog owners and struck up conversations to learn the dog's name, which made it possible to identify the owner via pet records and mail back the poop, labeled "Lost Property." Violations dropped by 70%.
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 08:27PM by design-responsibly
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TIL Back in 1965 a Senate subcommittee predicted that we'd enjoy 2-hour work weeks by the year 2000. However, In 1991, the average American worker put in 163 more hours on the job than in 1973, according to the sociologist Juliet Schor, the author of “The Overworked American.”
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Submitted February 27, 2020 at 08:39PM by Neopterin
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TIL about misophonia; a recently proven brain abnormality which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking (as well as other trigger noises).
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Submitted February 28, 2020 at 12:05AM by jurphyy
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TIL of the American Indian Chief, Adam Fortunate Eagle, who landed in Italy in full traditional regalia and claimed the country "by right of discovery" , just as Columbus had claimed the Americas.
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Submitted February 28, 2020 at 02:42AM by pmmeillicitbreadpics
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TIL a woman told an auto shop she had to cancel her service appt. as her car was stolen. One of the 3 Tulsa men who own the auto shop called her back the next day to tell her he & his buddies are chasing her stolen car. With TPD dispatch, they got her car back after after a 15 min chase.
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Submitted February 28, 2020 at 03:26AM by Miskatonica
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