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TIL in 2012 a Vermont State Police trooper discovered a pig-shaped spot in a cow in the logo on his patrol car. Inmates at a correctional facility were responsible for printing the decals.

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GY0y5 TIL that up until 1912, Americans could place an order in the Sears catalog and receive a syringe, two needles, and two vials of heroin in a handsome carrying case from the German pharmaceutical company Bayer for $1.50
ArAg TIL that a “blind pig” was a lower-class establishment that sold alcohol during Prohibition (in contrast to a higher-class “speakeasy”). The owner would charge customers to see an attraction (such as an animal) and then serve a “complimentary” alcoholic beverage, thus circumventing the law.
D7PJ TIL that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made over 200 million dollars with Book of Mormon, roughly 19 million per month, which was enough money to start start their own production company.
78yxX TIL of a law for how to handle simultaneous deaths. The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act says that if (for example) a husband and wife die in a plane crash without a will, the husband died before the wife and the wife died before the husband. Their estate is divided evenly.
yQgBJ TIL 50% of American adults are incapable of reading a book written on an eighth-grade level.