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TIL Pancake Commercials Secretly Replace Syrup With Motor Oil Because It Doesn’t Absorb Into Pancakes.

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LknJm Today I learned, two men made famous in the 90’s who claimed to have created hundreds of crop circles since 1978 using rope and a simple wooden board admitted it was a Hoax.
d8bgd TIL in the 1970's after the popularity of Bruce Lee films, nunchucks were made illegal in many countries including the U.S. They were (incorrectly) believed to be extraordinarily dangerous and still remain illegal to possess in CA and MA. NY's nunchuck ban was ruled unconstitutional in 2018.
yQd4X TIL about Stubbs, a cat who was the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska from July 1997 until his death. As a mayor, Stubbs used to eat at a restaurant and drank water laden with catnip out of a wineglass or margarita glass.
5YPMP TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
xVRpo TIL that the first powered airplane flight was not by the Wright Brothers in 1903, but by English aeronautical inventor John Stringfellow, who in 1848 flew for 30 meters in controlled and level powered flight in Somerset. Textbooks are being changed to reflect this new research and give him credit.