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TIL All Ben & Jerry’s Employees get to take home 3 free pints of ice cream every single day!

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b6yQa TIL that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns an enormous collection of fossils as a kind of byproduct of the Corps’s actual, more logistical purpose: flood control.
a8n7b TIL about the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and how the big old detour it takes all down the neck, under the aortic arch, and back up the neck is evidence for evolution.
e09db TIL the British invented the word "soccer" 200 years ago, as slang for association football ("assoc."-er). It only lost popularity in the '80s, when the term became "too American"
W7YMo TIL that "The Black Cauldron" was the first Disney animated film to receive a PG rating. It was a box-office bomb.
b9Wx7 TIL that, in 2013, PayPal accidentally paid $92,233,720,368,547,800 - 92 quadrillion dollars - into a Pennsylvanian man's account. His account was quickly returned to its initial amount of $0.