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TIL Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" were recalled because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"

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W7QG8 TIL male mole crickets amplify their song with a burrow shaped as a double exponential horn; the song can be heard up to 600 metres away
Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.
OoKX7 TIL minors will no longer be able to buy sodas and potatoes chips in Oaxaca, a state of Mexico
7NwX TIL The US Marines has enough equipment, ammo and supplies stored in Norwegian caves to support a 15000 man brigade for 30 days
joM TIL that President Nixon gave the President of Ireland a flag that traveled to the moon and a piece of moon rock. The moon rock was accidentally dumped and is worth $5 million dollars.