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TIL the botanical genus name of the cotton thistle means 'donkey fart thorny food'

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bpaZ TIL the USA paid $200 billion dollars to cable company’s to provide the US with Fiber internet. They took the money and didn’t do anything with it.
oWaE TIL The Christian cross actually pre-dates Christianity in usage. It dates back to ancient Babylon and the worship of the sun-gods Mithra and Tammuz. It wasn’t used by Christians until fourth century after Emperor Constantine (a pagan sun-worshipper) had a vision of the cross in front of the sun.
e0OKL TIL that the hairstyle Perm is short for Permanent.
OojLg TIL that the Judgement of Solomon has parallels in many other traditions such as India (where the Buddha asks to two mothers to tug war the child's body)
1M0O TIL that The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.