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TIL the fast food industry costs the US gov approx. $7bn in welfare, such as foodstamps and healthcare, simply because their employees are not paid a living wage.

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PYeQG TIL 14 year old Nathan Zohner got 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote on banning Dihydrogen Monoxide for his science fair project, wanting to prove the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first price.
4X7mg TIL the world’s tallest cat scratching tower is over 32 ft tall and weighs over 10 tons.
E9Bd TIL - President Franklin D Roosevelt received a truckload of Yuengling beer delivered to the Whitehouse the day prohibition was ended.
vJB4 TIL As much as 7% of the population has experienced waking from sleep and being totally paralyzed but aware as mind & body become out of sync in REM cycles.
9Y8RX TIL you rarely hear Happy Birthday on TV because the song was copyrighted from 1935 to 2014. In 2014 Time Warner paid 14 million to release the song to the public domain rather than face a lawsuit over their aggressive ownership of it which was netting them 2 million a year.