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TIL: There are 2 versions of Girl Scout Cookies. They employ 2 different bakers for their cookies, ABC Bakers & Little Brownie Bakers (the cookies they make look differently, taste differently &, in some cases, even have different names). Where you live determines which type of cookie you will get!

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1Am8 TIL that the St. Joseph’s student who serves as the school’s Hawk mascot receives a full scholarship as long as he does NOT stop flapping his wings at basketball games. The mascot is estimated to flap his wings 3,500 times during a regulation game.
O8L7 TIL Channel 4 carried out investigative journalism in several UK mosque and uncovered that most have regular lectures condoning violence, raping children and alienation. Islamic organization’s response was that it was racist for broadcasters to film them.
po9N TIL students from TU Delft developed an Ambulance Drone equipped with medical supplies, camera and a speaker. The operator will then instruct the user through the speaker to use the equipment and save the person’s life, this supposedly would increase survival rates from 8% to 80%.
p8jbA TIL that Sam Raimi, the Coen Brothers, Kathy Bates, Frances McDormand, and Holly Hunter all shared a house in 1980s Los Angeles
gl9D TIL When Billy Idol’s cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ song “Mony Mony” reached #1 on the charts in 1987, it dethroned Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”, which was also a cover of a Tommy James and the Shondells song.