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TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary quotes the Beastie Boys nine times

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xV65b TIL Peanuts are not nuts, and grow underground.
Z8b5D TIL that in the mid-1990s, a man in Montana was able to build fully armed Cobra attack helicopters out of supposedly demilitarized military surplus parts. He then used them to hunt coyotes.
7800O TIL the word "bundt" is trademarked (oddly, for the pan, but not the cake itself)
W9xo TIL A study done by Stanford Marine ecologist has shown that every single bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California has tested positive for Fukushima radiation isotopes. Every one of them.
DVdj TIL the Mexican government distributed a pamphlet to would-be illegal aliens describing how to safely enter the United States illegally and live there without being detected.