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TIL if you donate $2 to the Dave Thomas Foundation through Wendy’s, you’ll receive a free frosty with your order for the rest of 2017

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awMZA TIL that Vladimir The Great, Prince of Kiev, considered converting from Paganism to Islam. He sent envoys to study Islam, but upon Learning that Islam forbade alcohol and pork, he got baptized himself and baptized Kiev Rus
nWvWr TIL that after the collapse of the Tacoma bridge in 1940, it’s designer Clark Eldridge enlisted in the navy. He was captured and sent to a POW camp by the Japanese for three years. During his imprisonment, a Japanese officer recognized him, walked up to him and said “Tacoma bridge!”.
4kvoo Today I learned of Eben Byers, 1920s industrialist and amateur golf champion who died of "generalized cancer" after drinking 1,400 doses of a quack remedy containing radium. At the end of his life, "holes were actually forming in his skull".
v1b77 TIL goats are permanently in toad sage mode. Goats have horizontal pupils because that way in case predators (or something dangerous) come from their periphiral vision they can see it clearly.
xWA1 TIL Last year a Florida woman drove into a house because she was praying with her eyes closed…while driving.