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TIL the state of Michigan guarantees two free meals for all public school students

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R5aA8 TIL the IAU definition of planet that excludes Pluto from being considered one also excludes Mercury.
pYjmO TIL Ukrainians hang fake spiders/webs on their Christmas tree because of a folklore about an impoverished widow who couldn't afford to buy any holiday decorations. The spiders in her house heard her cries and added webs on her pine tree, which glittered gold and silver in the morning.
XErEE TIL that after Usain Bolt broke the 100 m world record at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, the mayor of Berlin awarded him a 12 foot long, 6000 pound piece of the Berlin Wall. Bolt accepted and it is now housed at the Jamaica Military Museum.
OVV6 TIL that the balsamic vinegar in grocery stores is a pale imitation of the real deal: True balsamic vinegar can take over 25 years to make and can cost as much as $400 for a 100 ml bottle
R5BQ9 TIL that there are two kinds of freedom. A person alone in a desert has the perfect negative freedom to choose where to die. A person on a highway has the positive freedom to drive wherever they want, in large part because they don't have the negative freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road.