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TIL it was proposed that the Bureau of Land Management cut all funding for the care of wild American mustang herds, and instead allow them to be sold to horse meat dealers who supply Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses.

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5Ron TIL that in 1970, Bill Murray cracked a joke to another passenger at O'Hare International Airport about carrying a bomb in his suitcase. A ticket agent who overheard the joke summoned the US Marshalls. They didn’t find explosives in the bag, but instead found 10 pounds of weed.
Y7J5G TIL That in June 2005, 3 movies based on the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds all came out in the same month
Lkjxm TIL 8 people were killed while protesting NYC's cancellation of a protestant parade in 1870. When the city reversed course and let the parade proceed with an escort of 1500 policeman and 5000 national guardsmen, it turned into another riot that killed 60 and wounded 120.
kJOEg TIL the modern face-up technique of high jump was invented by American Dick Fosbury and debuted at the 1968 Olympics. Reporters mocked him, saying he looked like a "two legged camel". He won the gold. It is now known as the "Fosbury Flop" and is the dominant style in the sport
9Xb6 TIL that because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, which are limited compared to English which ends in verbs and nouns, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme