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TIL The Beverly Hillbillies had a third verse that wasn't on the show

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b6enE TIL a housing project called Cabrini green had a long history of gangs using sniper rifles to shoot people from high level floors and roof tops spanning from the late 60s to the 1990s
XoVj TIL that giant and colossal squids’ brains are donut-shaped and encase their esophagi - and that swallowing anything larger than 10 mm in diameter can result in brain damage.
PXjn TIL that the Cola gets its name from the kola nut, a caffeine-containing fruit of the kola tree, which is used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages
Xg9X TIL that Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was asked to resign from all extracurricular activities at Dartmouth University because he was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room.
6EZVW TIL in 1985, MTV ran a contest based on John Mellencamp's song Pink Houses, where they gave away a pink house. Unfortunately, the house was on a toxic waste dump in Indiana. Not wanting to poison his fans, they were forced to buy another house. Also included was a garage full of Hawaiian Punch.