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TIL that Elvis Presley's song Jailhouse Rock is ONE of SimFarm's BGM.

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amAb TIL The widowed mother of Henry VI was barred from remarrying by a law stripping her betrothed of wealth. Thus, she married a landless Welsh servant, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur. His name eventually became Owen Tudor, and his descendants would rule England for over 100 years.
B6ld TIL that U.S. Federal Affirmative Action regulations specify that minority status cannot supersede merit in hiring decisions, and “(q)uotas are expressly forbidden.”
ewwb TIL there is an incredibly detailed replica of San Francisco made entirely of Jello
loaBa TIL it took 750 artists making over 2 million sketches to create the 1937 Disney animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The final movie was comprised of 250,000 individual drawings.
KORgw TIL that, in their natural state, olives are almost completely inedible; to combat this 99% of olives are bathed in lye, a powerful corrosive, for several days.