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TIL that veggie straws are actually worse for you than most potato chips on the market.

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neVV7 TIL a Molotov Cocktail is so named because of the Finn's mockery of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, where Vyacheslav Moloto said bombing raids over Finland where "Humanitarian Bread Drops". Finns attacked Soviet tanks with the aforementioned weapons as "a drink to go with the bread"
j4oX TIL in 1980, the Soviet Union refused to host the Paralympics claiming that none of their citizens suffered from disabilities.
4XmVN TIL No one has died from being bitten by a Rabid Dog in the United States for over 40 years. Canine-specific rabies has been completely eradicated in the US, although other mammals can transmit other strains of the disease.
nLnW TIL in 2008 a dog tried to save his owners lives after 5 armed pirates hijacked their yacht off the coast of Venezuela. After the men climbed aboard the dog furiously attacked them, biting and snapping until he was stabbed then shot. The dog survived and the pirates left almost empty handed.
DPrP TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary quotes the Beastie Boys nine times