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TIL that cartoon characters on cereal boxes often stare downward, which catches the gaze of children passing by

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8e0AL TIL a former Nvidia employee spent $2 million dollars of his own money to find the largest current prime number which is 41,024,320 digits long.
16Dp4 Today I learned dinosaur food still exists
rkro TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, inventor of CFC and leaded gasoline, who is regarded as having the greatest impact on the atmosphere of any single organism in history also accidentally strangled himself to death with his final invention.
d8OPQ TIL David “Gypsy” Chain, a 24 year old environmental activist who protested against logging of redwood trees. He was killed by a falling tree intentionally chopped down by a logger. Despite evidence of the logger threatening to kill the protestors, the district attorney didn’t press any charges.
vOMj TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” lists V. Ford as the songwriter so that the royalty checks could be used to run a soup kitchen.