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TIL that Cindy Crawford won a scholarship to Northwestern for Chemical Engineering; she was also valedictorian of her high school.

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PYb6g TIL Nashville Zoo is located on property that was once a 300-acre slave holding farm. When construction for the zoo began in 1997, this graveyard was not disturbed. It was only in 2013 did the zoo petition to have the bodies exhumed, revealing 9 to 30 African-Americans buried there
LkekZ TIL that Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have all made separate special guest voice appearances, as themselves, in episodes of The Simpsons. Of the "Fab Four", the only Beatle to never make an appearance is John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, nine years before the show started.
E0jo TIL SNAP program (aka “food stamps”) supports purchasing live vegetable plants and seeds to grow a garden. Helping to provide healthy food, thrifty use of money, and teaching self sufficiency.
8arbV TIL The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds.
xVBXk TIL Paul Newman, Actor and Founder of Newman’s Own, also founded a summer camp called the Hole In The Wall Gang. It is a summer camp for seriously ill children of all ages, free of charge.