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TIL that the official motto for the California Conservation Corps is “Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions…and more!”

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ZpGAo TIL in the 1970s Gerber attempted to market "adult baby food" to college students and other young adults.
8aJoX TIL of Otto Skorzeny, an SS commando who among other feats rescued Mussolini from a mountaintop prison, spread chaos undercover in American uniform and was later recruited by the Mossad
xg5k TIL Every new issue of Hustler Magazine has been sent to all 535 Members of Congress since 1983 by owner Larry Flynt
l7nVB TIL about rodent guillotines, which are used by researchers to kill the lab rodents when they've no more use for them
nWnjG TIL a series of US explosion tests by was performed in 1965 near Hawaii using 450t of explosives. 92,022 blocks of TNT were stacked in domes to simulate the shock effects of nuclear blasts without the radiation.