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TIL Americans allergies have been getting worse since the 1950's, When the USDA encouraged municipalities to plant pollen producing male trees instead of "the messy fruit and seed bearing" female trees.

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yQ0Gv TIL that the sound doves make when taking off/landing isn’t from their beak, but rather from their wing tips
grwwb TIL Simple Minds initially rejected recording what would become their biggest hit “Don’t You Forget About Me”. Lead singer Kerr said, “We couldn't give a toss about teenage American schoolkids” (‘The Breakfast Club’ film the song was written for). Billy Idol had also passed up on recording the song.
Oa1L TIL The last surviving ship of the White Star Line (who built the Titanic in 1908) appeared in France in 2012 and is still operable today (102 years old).
N7D1M TIL despite the fact Cragslist brings in US$1 billion a year, the company has only 50 employees
e0e5n TIL that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (the Columbia High School murderers) actually were bullied in high school, including an incident in which they had a cup of shit thrown at them and another in which a group of students gathered around them and covered them in ketchup