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TIL that Russians almost surely didn’t put frogs in their milk to preserve it.

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R194 TIL that the always bubbly Who’s Line Is It Anyway star Wayne Brady suffers from severe depression. After having a mental breakdown at 42 years old and Robin Williams death in 2014 made him realize how important it was to speak publicly about facing depression
D1KjJ TIL The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was heard from over 3000 miles away.
e05EJ TIL the famous WW2 song (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover is false, because bluebirds are only native to the Americas
yygp TIL That the federal government takes a percentage (as high as 47% in recent years) of every raisin farmer’s crops… every year… without paying for them. This is due to an arcane law still on the books from WWII reconstruction.
4X40N TIL: Male Jurors are more likely to find fat women guilty