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TIL: Smuckers Uncrustables sends all of their discarded crusts to be made into animal feed.

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Z8Lro TIL about the Ray Cat Solution, a way to keep future generations away from dangerous nuclear waste sites. The idea was to engineer a cat that changes colour in response to radiation — then create a culture around this cat so that if your cat changes colour, you should move someplace else.
N4EE TIL Jesse Owens, 4 time Gold Medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was not invited to the White House by FDR after winning them. He said this about not being invited, “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”
GY5o1 TIL Serial conman, Derek Alldred, created fake lives in order to deplete women of their savings. Derek scammed a dozen women out of $1 million dollars, until his victims united to help cops charge him with 2 counts of identity theft and one count of mail fraud, a penalty of 24 years in prison.
KYXoQ TIL Cucumbers was for a while commonly known as "cowcumbers". As they were seen as only good for animal fodder.
X0EdQ TIL the term LOL ('laughing out loud') is widely believed to have been coined in a chat room in the 1980s by Wayne Pearson of Calgary, Alberta (Canada).