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TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) never intended the apples he planted to be eaten whole. He intended for them to be made into hard apple cider.

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Lpnd TIL in Spain, it is tradition for hunters to kill their Spanish Greyhound hunting dogs at the end of the hunting season. Young healthy dogs are hung, shot, maimed and/or strangled and left to die.
GyRG TIL - There has only ever been one successful shoot-down of a F-117A stealth plane, in 1999 during the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia, the Pilot ejected safely. Since then the US pilot and Serb that shot him down have become good friends.
p88le Potatoes are close, but not close enough.
dDR1Z TIL that the Pentagon has never passed a financial audit
bDXZ TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton, poultry) are French-based. This is because the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats.