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TIL every Christmas in Lexington, Kentucky, you can pay off your tickets with canned food donations

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j6jGM TIL Several African countries don’t like second-hand clothes being imported to their countries because it is destroying their local textile industry.
vPXnR TIL that until the 1960s pimentos were stuffed into olives by hand; now they are inserted by a specialized machine made in Spain that also removes the pits with an X-shaped punch (check out the bottom of your next olive to see the imprint).
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