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TIL Frankenberry stool is an officially recognized ailment that was caused by people ingesting 1970’s Frankenberry Cereal then pooping pink.

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rx14 TIL that Vitamin D supplements are made by extracting the fat from sheeps’ wool
OoZL4 TIL that in 2007, the hijacking of a Mauritanian flight was thwarted. Over the PA, the pilot instructed the passengers that he was about to make a bumpy landing, and they should attack the hijacker while he was off balance. He said this in French, which the gunman did not speak. The ploy succeeded.
K4DJ TIL Mount Rushmore has a hidden hallway with granite stairs that was designed to hold American relics and documents
7vgZ TIL a Russian immigrant to NY in the 1920s, Lillian Alling was so homesick that she resolved to walk home to Siberia. She walked an estimated 5000 miles in 3 years, serving a few months in jail for vagrancy in Canada, and was last sighted on the banks of the Bering Strait.
pW1N TIL Cannabis is the largest cash crop in the U.S., exceeding corn and wheat combined