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TIL Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps is a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, stating “the Scripture doesn’t support racism.”

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lyLa TIL: In 2014, the Spanish Marijuana Seed store Alchimia, has contributed around 21,500 seeds, to ensure the survival of cannabis for use by future generations.
QOme TIL the oldest unopened wine bottle in the world is from a 4th century Roman tomb
5VOpB TIL that there is a brand of potato chips developed for prison commissaries that was so popular on the inside that it became available to the mass market.
7ebb TIL the word ‘buck’ as a synonym for dollar originates with the use of buckskins as currency in the 18th century.
BrwZr TIL about the 1958 destruction of Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in southwest British Columbia. It took three years to place over 1,000 tons of explosive in tunnels under the mountain, and it was one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.