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TIL Teachers at a Florida elementary placed books inside the school vending machine. Students can buy books using tokens earned from doing good deeds or working hard in class

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X9a8 TIL Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 and is an African-American thing, not an African holiday
o5o7 TIL in France the law on unused food was canceled. It is only a voluntary agreement between supermarkets and the government with no penalties in cases of non-compliance.
grPmX TIL that industrial beehives are built around the concept of "bee space," a specific gap width that bees will avoid plugging with comb or propolis (bee glue)
DDvJ TIL that when snakes slither, they’re actually lifting parts of their body off the ground a tiny amount, and are effectively “walking” on their coils. Even accounting for this, mathematical models of snake movement can only account for ~90% of their top speed, the final ~10% being a mystery
nWwyr TIL that when the small town of Delton, Michigan received a foreign exchange student, the host family thought the Austrian boy had exaggerated his size. Bernhard Raimann a) was 6' 6" tall and b) wanted to play American football. He dominated local teams, got a college scholarship, and is in the NFL.