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TIL Fabio was the spokesperson for "I Can't Believe it's Not Butter" from 1994-2016 turning its brand name into an international catchphrase

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Go9J TIL that Stephen Colbert testified at an official congressional hearing on the state of agricultural jobs in the US, all the while staying fully in-character and making fun of congress in his speech.
Emvp TIL of Memory Crystals. A small disc that can hold 360 terabytes of data.
6QNY TIL a man blew his head off in the middle of the Harvard campus, as an “as an experiment in nihilism”, as described in his 1900-pg manifesto.
6E5A7 TIL When an earthquake hit Los Angeles in 1994 knocking out power to the entire city, many anxious residents called 911 to report seeing a strange “giant, silvery cloud” in the dark night sky. What they really saw – for the first time – was the Milky Way
R59Ka TIL that the phosphorus used in fertilizer for food production is considered a non-renewable and finite resource we will run out of someday