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TIL an Iowa woman was ticketed for mailing her neighbor a quart of cow poop. The neighbors have had a running dispute over the woman's dog barking.

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dD0K9 TIL Glass frogs have translucent skin, allowing you to see their organs, bones, and even their beating heart. Found in Central and South America, they use this feature as camouflage to blend in with their surroundings. They have adapted to life in the rainforest and are surprisingly resilient.
OGyjR TIL One farming family in California uses more water then all of Las Vegas
dN1d TIL that the leading zipper brand, YKK, was fined $150 million euros for running not one, but four zipper price-fixing cartels.
RXV1 TIL the the Civil War cost 620,000 American lives, more than this country’s other wars combined, from the Revolution through Vietnam. That was about 2% of the population; if it happened now, historians estimate, the equivalent number of dead would total 6 million.
jNWON TIL in 1917, Salvation Army volunteers provided supplies and baked goods to American soldiers. The women fried doughnuts in the soldiers' helmets and were known as "Doughnut Lassies" popularizing doughnuts in the USA. National Doughnut Day is now celebrated on the first Friday of June every year.