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TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.

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epV84 TIL in Germany, a Coalition Government that Between The CDU/CSU (Black), the SDP (Red), and the FDP (Yellow) is called a "Germany Coalition" because the party colours match the German Flag
rRGW TIL that almost all carrots used to be purple and it wasn’t until the 17th century that most of them became orange.
oRByL TIL that the Battle of the Bulge marked the first time the U.S. Army desegregated troops during WWII.
a1mM TIL when Robert Downey Jr was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. RDJ credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free.
yQORV TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heiress) killed somebody while DUI and the charges were dropped after the arresting trooper was mysteriously suspended and unable to testify until after charges had expired