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TIL 70% of all red meat consumed worldwide is goat meat.

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JyNB TIL that Microsoft Engineers received (anonymized) every query that you asked of Clippy. A lonely woman poured out her every fear and her loneliness to that paperclip while the MS engineers could do nothing but watch her life unfold, one line at a time.
yoaM TIL that although Walt Disney is often rumored to have been an anti-Semite he donated to several Jewish charities and was named “1955 Man of the Year” by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.
X0JDX TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.
e0V7D Today I learned that most condoms are not vegan.
ng4Y TIL in 1986, ‘60 Minutes’ ran a scathing exposé on the Audi 5000, alleging it could wildly accelerate on its own. However, their on-air demonstration used a rigged car to show falsified results. Gov’t tests later vindicated Audi but their sales had already plummeted. '60 Minutes’ never apologized.