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TIL that almonds are a member of the peach family.

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Oo9rR Til the Great Chinese Famine had more deaths in areas at produced more food per capita. Nancy Qian and Pierre Yared showed that aggregate production was sufficient for avoiding famine and that the famine was caused by over-procurement and poor distribution by the government
Zp7bY TIL there is a children's book about a tow truck and a snowplow called Hookers And Blow Save Christmas.
loV11 TIL that just before the premiere of the 1977 ABC sitcom Soap, L.A. Times published a leaked memo from the network's standards department: "The colloquy between Peter and Jessica...which relates to cunnilingus/fellatio is obviously unacceptable"
gMAP9 TIL that the Southern Baptist Church formed in 1844 when Baptists living in the south opposed the efforts of Baptists living in the north to prevent missionaries from owning slaves. So they formed the Southern Baptist church, a church that explicitly allowed slavery.
9bM TIL Intel spilled 1.4 tons of carbon tetrachloride in Rio Rancho, New Mexico in 2003. Deceased dogs in the area were found to have high levels of toluene, hexane, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers in their lungs. Intel later lied and reported no release of carbon tetrachloride for all of 2003.