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TIL It is illegal to hunt a Bigfoot in Washington state, Oregon and California. It is still legal to hunt them in the state of Texas though.

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5YEZR TIL In a war torn small town in Colombia a public school was built with a bunker to protect children from firefights between armed groups.
QNRRe TIL in September 2011, the state of Texas abolished all special last meal requests for death row inmates.
GAoNN TIL The inventor of the Keurig coffee pod system, John Sylvan, sold his ownership of the product for $50,000 in 1997.
8e7B4 TIL that the Sultan of Morocco proposed a joint Anglo-Moroccan invasion of the West Indies that would expel Spain from the Caribbean and place their former colonies under joint Moroccan-English rule. Queen Elizabeth was intrigued but both she and the Sultan died in 1603, scuttling any plans.
l7o6r TIL Mike Oldfield, when Virgin Records insisted on hi9m calling his next LP "Tubular Bells 2", responded with "Amarok" - an album with rapidly shifting themes, random bursts of noise, and a message in morse code saying "F**k you RB" - apparently directed at Richard Branson.