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TIL in 2000, a man in pennsylvania terrorized local markets by stealthily crumbling thousands of dollars worth of baked goods in their packaging for three years.

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Wkeg4 TIL that birds' beaks are not a solid, exposed bone, but instead are a bony structure covered in translucent living tissue that can change color at different times of the year, when they are breeding, or based on their diet/health.
WB5X TIL in the mid-1800s USA, “Native American” political parties (descendants from the original 13 colonies) grew popularity because many thought new Catholic, Irish and German immigrants “followed authoritarian leaders, imported crime and disease, stole native jobs, and practiced moral depravities.”
mxYpO TIL McDonald's is experimenting with playing classical music over the restaurants' loudspeakers at night in hopes of stopping fights from breaking out
a8k8A TIL there’s an album of 27 songs, one for each of the 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
xV7wD TIL JRR Tolkien (Author of the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) would hand-write, illustrate, envelop, seal, stamp letters from "Father Christmas" to each of his children each year.