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TIL that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh had originally selected TCBY Tower (now Simmons Bank Tower) in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a possible bombing location, but changed his plans due to a florist shop on the first floor of the tower.

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MZP0 TIL The term “meme” was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976. It represents “one unit of cultural transmission.”
pBpp TIL Bob Dylan missed Woodstock, after being invited, because he didn’t like hippies.
Vnx4 TIL Seattle Seahawks Left Tackle Walter Jones played 13 Seasons without missing a game. In those 180 games, he got caught for holding only 9 times (.0016% of snaps) and got beaten for a sack only 23 times (.004%).
ADRXl TIL there’s a federal law requiring all vodkas be distilled in such a manner that ensures they pretty much all taste the same (without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color). NPR facilitated a lab study that proved there are no discernible taste differences in cheap vodka vs Grey Goose.
ADVm4 TIL about the Makapansgat Pebble, a waterworn piece of Jasper that unmistakably resembles a human face. This pebble was carried a great distance to a South African cave by an Australopithecus hominid around 3,000,000 years ago. It is the earliest known evidence for human visual-symbolic thought.