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TIL Sour Patch Kids are called Very Bad Kids in France and were originally called Mars Men.

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9YlWm TIL There are experiments to determine if medias are biased, however, conservative experimenters tend to get results showing that the Media has Liberal bias while Liberal experimenters tend to get results indicating that the media has conservative bias.
b6ZV7 TIL that the longest cow horn ever recorded is 10 feet 7.4 inches tip to tip and belong to a cow named Poncho, hailing from Clay County Alabama. Poncho is a family pet that was hand reared by the Pope family from 6 months old. Apparently he has always been 'big-boned'.
GAnPj TIL that the saying "eating crow" comes from the fact that crow meat tastes bad
BgwZy TIL The quintessential renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, never had the standard scholary education of his time. He only taught himself some latin, had no formal maths education until he was 40+ and didn't study the classics, thus traditional scholars scoffed at his observational scientific method
R7ly7 TIL about the El Cazador shipwreck, a single ship carrying 19 tons of Spanish silver sunk in 1784, causing Spain to give up Louisiana to France. Had this ship not sunk, the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened.