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TIL that black people were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on July 4th, so butter pecan was created as an alternative.

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1a4gO TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.
5Y46R TIL that silent discos are banned in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, for being too noisy
78lZ7 TIL Disney produced an educational film in 1946 called The Story of Menstruation that was the first production ever to use the word vagina
b6Y64 TIL of the 1908 Tunguska explosion in Siberia, which experts believe was an asteroid that ripped apart 800 square miles of forest
JxX1 TIL a man ate only bacon for 30 days, and lost about 20 lbs in 1 month.