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TIL SNAP program (aka “food stamps”) supports purchasing live vegetable plants and seeds to grow a garden. Helping to provide healthy food, thrifty use of money, and teaching self sufficiency.

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p8oAp TIL that there's a cave in Romania that had been sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and scientists have discovered dozens of unique lifeforms thriving in the poisonous gases and water.
8mDX TIL that Willem Dafoe once got expelled from his high school for filming porn.
5Yrrn TIL scientists say that parents shouldn’t discourage their kids from eating boogers based on findings that snot consumption is good for overall health: snot contains a rich reservoir of good bacteria, and eating it can strengthen the body’s immune system & prevent bacteria from sticking to teeth
BD5L TIL that Pee Wee Herman’s father was a WW2 fighter pilot who, along with 4 other pilots and a total of 4 aircrafts, founded the Israeli Air Force and helped win Israel’s independence in 1948.
NY6b TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life