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TIL that Happy Hour sales regarding alcohol are illegal in North Carolina

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80vG TIL Ray Bradbury, in an interview with the Paris Review, stated “You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t.”
9Yg1G TIL The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust is a grain reserve of commodities and cash. In 2008 the USDA sold the remaining stocks into an all cash reserve. Since it no longer holds commodities, it can respond to local food crises outside the US, but not to a global one that affects the USA itself.
78VZX TIL a lactating Virgin Mary supposedly reanimated and shot her milk across a room and into a man's mouth or eyes. There are multiple holy paintings of that "miracle."
EgnXV TIL that despite being fluent in several languages, Kit Carson was illiterate
b98Dj TIL Looney Tunes voice actor Mel Blanc used to talk to random people on a CB radio (truckers radio). He would often use the nickname “Bugs” or “Daffy” and would talk in said voices accordingly.