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TIL A feather will maximize crop production in a garden

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nWJjG TIL the Woodstock 1999 festival was so ill-prepared for the crowd size that portable toilets overflowed and there was no shade from the heat. Attendees started playing in mud to cool off unaware it was contaminated by waste leaking from toilets leading to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot.
6wDJ TIL that Toyota had to pay $1.2 billion fine for safety negligence with unintended acceleration issues, despite a NASA report showing the issues were due to driver error.
OKNL TIL a woman was commissioned to write a book about a presumed serial killer in Washington while the killer’s identity was unknown. That killer turned out to be Ted Bundy, a close friend and former coworker of the writer
VMyj8 TIL that ethereal singer Enya's vocals sometimes didn't translate well from existing Earth languages, so her collaborator Roma Ryan constructed an futuristic language called "Loxian" for her. Roma also created an online video game to educate others about Loxian culture.
VML6B TIL that cats have accents. Phonetics researchers have suggested that cats and their humans develop a “pidgin language” together to communicate, which may influence regional variations in cat vocalizations.