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TIL that the game Monopoly was created with the goal of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants

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9wryr TIL in 2001, dulce de leche M&M's were introduced in five American cities with large Hispanic populations. The flavor never became popular with the Hispanic community, who preferred existing M&M's flavors, and it was discontinued in most areas by early 2003.
VM5BQ TIL that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time slowed down production of The Powerpuff Girls because crew members played the game too much
D1kVg TIL that chimney sweeps use to use live geese to sweep chimneys.
5QWB TIL that it is not only possible to be elected Governor of Louisiana with only 33% of the vote, it actually happened as recently as 1987.
kOnOB TIL that Canadian country folk singer and songwriter Taylor Mitchell was killed by a pair of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Her death is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult as well as the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in Canada