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TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy

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JYkym TIL because France prohibits alcohol sponsorship of sport, the Guinness Six Nations rugby championship is branded there as 'Six Nations Greatness'
YAQr TIL the BBC ran a contest asking vacationers for pictures of French beaches prior to D-Day to help gather intelligence and determine whether the beach was suitable for an amphibious landing.
rn6M TIL Heme is the iron-containing part of hemoglobin that binds oxygen in your blood. If you replace the iron atom in heme with magnesium, you get another biologically important family of compounds - chlorophyll.
b6k47 TIL Ernesto Miranda, namesake of the Miranda warning, was murdered and the person suspected of killing him invoked his Miranda rights and was never charged
5YLBn May 2020 was the warmest May worldwide in recorded history, going back all the way to 1850, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed.