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TIL Beavers’ anal secretions are used to make artificial vanilla flavoring and it can legally be called “natural flavoring.”

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O1v6 TIL Dumb people over estimate their abilities. Smart people under estimate their abilities. Dunning-Kruger.
b9y9Q TIL that the five-digit zip code didn’t exist until the 60s, wasn’t mandatory until the 70s, and the plus-four didn’t exist until the 80s.
ADr5a TIL that all but 6 US Presidents have English heritage
ReB7 TIL we refer to our lower body garments as “pairs of pants” because they originally came as two articles of clothing instead of a single piece.
mx9kv TIL the title of Led Zeppelin's song "Black Dog," which reached the charts in several countries, was inspired by a black Labrador Retriever without a name that lingered and wandered around the Headley Grange recording studios when the band were recording the album the song's on.