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TIL The Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables

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JYyYV TIL that the USA dropped thousands of food packages over Afghanistan as a way of trying to earn the goodwill of the local population. Unfortunately they were printed in languages the average Afghan couldn't read, and were the exact color as cluster munitions dropped during the same operation.
BrGwk TIL "Blowing smoke up someone's ass" refers to the medical practice of a tobacco enema
5YvX8 TIL that in the Japanese Anime Detective Conan, the voice actor for Detective Wataru Takagi is a voice actor named Wataru Takagi.
eXn6 TIL Swedish blood donors first receive a ‘Thank you’ text when they initially donate blood, but they also recieve a text whenever their blood is used to help someone.
wPJ7 TIL France used to hold impotence trials, where wives could sue their husbands if he had ED. The husband would have to prove that he could get hard in court. If he couldn’t, his appeal would be a Trial by Congress, where the couple would have sex to prove the husband could fulfill his marital duties