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TIL the original lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" contained the words "There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me. The sign was painted, said 'Private Property.' But on the backside, it didn't say nothing. This Land was made for you and me" were not released due to McCarthyism.

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dDZ0B TIL Pad thai was mostlikely invented in the 20th century and was promoted by the Thai government as a way to save on rice following the Second World War. Pad thai has since gone on to be a national dish of Thailand.
4XdkJ TIL that On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity replaced the game with a “Bullsh*t” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,”This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. They sold 30,000 copies.
b96wZ TIL a liver transplant only requires a small section from the donor, because it will regenerate to the full size in the recipient. Interestingly, a child can receive a transplant and the liver will grow normally as they mature
JKP1 TIL that crows are amongst the most intelligent of birds, and are even capable of imitating human speech.
ZpR8R TIL that sharks, whose oldest known fossils are from ~450 mya, are much older than Polaris, the youngest, largest, and brightest star in the Polaris system being only 70 myo.