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TIL Many wineries use barn owls instead of poison for rodent control

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N7B1b TIL, Max Yasgur who hosted the '69 Woodstock concert, received only $10K, shunned by his neighbors, gave free water and milk to guests and was hailed. He died 4 years later and received a full page obituary in Rolling Stone as a non musician.
KYBM4 TIL that the emperor Caligula exploited his descent from both Augustus and Mark Antony as a pretext to punish a senator for commemorating the victory of the former over the latter at the Battle of Actium
D1wOr TIL about David Bowie’s 1983 interview with Mark Goodman where he calls out the lack of black artists featured on MTV
JYrwB TIL That the US Virgin Islands is the only US jurisdiction that drives on the lefthand side of the road.
oBbkr TIL water is not colorless. The pure water has a slight blue color that becomes a deeper green as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of the water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.