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TIL: Although Dark turkey Meat has a slightly higher calorie count, it contains more iron and Zinc (Plus other nutrients) than white meat.

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KO88G Today i learned one of the largest organisms on earth is a group of trees in Pando, Utah. It covers 107 acres and has 47,000 distinct trees that share the same root system.
Dn8g TIL the FBI planted a fake terrorist in a mosque in California - the mosque called the FBI on the “terrorist” and got a restraining order against him
NJNN TIL a law was implemented in 1950’s Greece whereby head shaving with manual clippers was used as punishment for young people caught by police, such as teddyboys and prostitutes. Obligatory hair clipping was finally abolished in Greece in 1982.
OvM7 TIL Casey Kasem Kasem was a devout vegan. He quit the Scooby-Doo show in 1995 when asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, returning in 2002 after negotiating to have Shaggy become a vegetarian.
6ybW TIL that James Earl Jones declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn’t significant enough to warrant a credit.