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TIL that Google hires a flock of 200 goats regularly to chew away the grass in their lawns rather than using land-mowers.

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G0LN TIL that in 2012, Walmart held a contest, in which the rapper Pitbull would perform in a Walmart with the most likes on its FB page. After the #ExilePitbull Twitter campaign, the shop in the remote island town of Kodiak, Alaska, ended up winning.
Zm4 TIL Canadians are required to answer a simple math question upon winning sweepstakes because of the Promotional Contest Provision in the Competition Act
VM1Q0 TIL that Michael Keaton is actually Michael Douglas. He had to change his name because there was already a Michael Douglas.
NXwP6 TIL that Thomas Edison and his partner, Edward Johnson, invented the first electric Christmas lights. For Christmas in 1880, Edison dressed his laboratory in lights; and, in 1882, Johnson put electric lights on a Christmas tree. However, lights were expensive, costing about $2,000 per tree in 1901.
GYwnj TIL that the etymological history of the word 'Slavs" stems from the Middle English word "sclave" which means slaves given that medieval Slavs were routinely captured and enslaved during wars in the Middle Ages.