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TIL: the “old Duke rate”; a legal loophole that allows electric consumers in South Carolina pay the same rate for electricity that they have been since 1966

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Kp6a TIL: Special K is banned in Denmark for being fortified with “toxic” doses of nutrients
R9N8 TIL that thousands of cargo containers go missing each year. One contained thousands of edible Doritos packets, and another containing a 8 foot tall Lego man.
4XQZ5 TIL that when John DeLorean was busted buying cocaine, undercover agents thought he had paid by signing over control of his car company. At trial, it came out that he had signed over rights to a worthless holding company instead.
1JYP TIL that both corn flakes and graham crackers were created in hopes that their bland flavor would act as a sexual sepressant.
RrWQ TIL That the CIA was in contact with generals planning to assassinate the South Vietnam president on Nov. 2, 1963. Kennedy “rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face.” He had not approved Diệm’s murder. Kennedy was assassinated 20 days later.