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TIL that hippies love for granola began with a need to feed half a million people easily at Woodstock.

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DQN7g TIL Benedict Arnold’s crypt was repurposed into a kindergarten classroom and his headstone is a wall decoration.
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ne8EW TIL Ben Franklin was such an incredible swimmer that he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.
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