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TIL The white stripes on clovers signal that it produces cyanide

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QJoXM TIL an Atlas nuclear missile silo in Kansas was converted to luxury condos for survivalists
Me17K TIL that when Coca Cola launched Dasani bottled water in the UK they lazily used the same campaign they’d used in the USA, and soon found out that BOTTLED SPUNK doesn’t mean the same thing in the UK that it does in America.
wLaoM TIL the $150 million fundraised by Band Aid in 1984 (where the famous song "Do They Know It's Christmas" comes from), which was meant to help famine-struck Ethiopia, actually lead to more deaths since it was given to the corrupt government who used the money to prolong the famine and civil war.
b9nOp TIL Thomas Jefferson's epitaph, which he wrote himself, states "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia." It makes no mention of his Presidency.
6JJl TIL there was a scientific study proving that internet trolls are actually horrible people