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TIL that a town called Sweetwater, Texas, as well as most of the Southeast, hold a form of a rattlesnake holocaust each year and have been doing so since about 1939.

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ePkg TIL in 2008 a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this very day.
D19gv TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called "pandiculation." It's apparently very important in waking up our nervous system.
6D98 TIL that NFL player Antonio Cromartie has 10 children from 8 different women and despite getting a vasectomy is expecting twins with his wife. Several of the other women keep in touch and most of the moms are on board for a reality show about the situation.
e0Vyn TIL of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students who were escorted by 101st Airbone Division soldiers into their school in 1957 after initially being blocked by the Arkansas National Guard and racial segregationists.
6NKl TIL that “runner’s high” is chemically equivalent to smoking marijuana.