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TIL Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali, North Africa.

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85ya TIL the United States is the current reigning Rugby Olympic Champion (1924), and the only team to win gold twice.
J1bpk TIL Vincent Van Gogh left art school shortly after an incident where he was assigned to draw the Venus de Milo and instead drew the nude torso of a peasant woman. When confronted by his teacher Van Gogh protested that a woman must have "hips, buttocks," and "a pelvis in which she can carry a baby."
newDr TIL that Animal House was filmed at the University of Oregon on the condition that it not be identified in the movie
OomM7 TIL Chester Cheetah wasn't the original mascot for Cheetos. Instead it was a mouse simply named the Cheetos Mouse, as it was decided a mouse would be the perfect pick since mice love cheese. It wasn't until 1986 when Chester Cheetah came along and Cheetos Mouse faded to obscurity.
6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy