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TIL That Facebook owns hundreds of Domain names, including faceboo.com, fb.com, and IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com

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GAYD7 TIL Bud Ruskin wrote the pilot script for "The Mod Squad" in 1960, based on his experiences working on an undercover sheriff's detective squad of young people. ABC put it on the air in 1968, when it was probably more successful than it would have been in the pre-hippy era.
ne0pd TIL about avian keratin disorder (AKD), an emerging disease in North America (first observed in the 1990s) that causes overgrowth of the keratin in birds' beaks. Birds with misshapen beaks can't feed and preen properly, which often results in their deaths.
M8JV TIL children have been sent to the emergency room after eating excessive hot Cheetos consumption and appearing to have bloody poops. Spicy snack contains a lot of red food dye, it can turn the stools of people red or orange.
nQZB TIL that in Italy the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975
VBmA0 TIL when making the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1976 album "Animals," a 12-meter large inflatable pig broke loose and floated over Heathrow, causing flights to be canceled. The pig eventually landed in a farmer's field in Kent, scaring the cows.