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TIL Ben & Jerry’s has a literal graveyard where all of its discontinued flavors are buried

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awKJ9 TIL of the Knights of the Golden Circle. They were a secret society who wanted to found a new, pro-slavery country called the Golden Circle which would've consisted of the US South, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Haiti, the DR, parts of South America, and the Caribbean.
v1e8D TIL Great white sharks used to be considered apex predators until it was discovered that they are occasionally eaten by killer whales.
8eROZ TIL that the civil rights act was not the first one in the U.S., but rather the second one, as the first was overturned by the supreme court in 1883.
9wl8M TIL Businesses exist that allow you to smash glassware and electronics for a price.
xw00 TIL hockey announcer Doc Emrick used 153 distinct verbs to describe the movement of the hockey puck in the 2014 Olympic game between USA and Canada.