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TIL Honey has been shown to recover hopeless behavior in mice that have undergone restraint stress for 21 days

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ZpVRD TIL in 1967 a Las Vegas cab driver plotted to kidnap Ted Binion, the son of casino owner and gangster Benny Binion. The cab driver was later found shot to death in the desert before the kidnapping could take place.
LkMVZ TIL Daniel Webster is primarily responsible for the differences between American and British spelling, but many of his changes never stuck, such as medicine=medicin, ache=ake, soup=soop, tongue=tung, women=wimmen, and weather=wether
e0Lbg TIL cows are often fed chicken litter which contains chicken poop, and chickens are often fed crushed bone meal, which can be crushed cow bones, and all this can lead to the spread of mad cow disease
NXAXN TIL Steven Seagal made an attempt at becoming Jamaican reggae singer (he does the accent)
w6QW TIL the dark history of bananas. In an effort to preserve “United Fruit Company’s” monopoly on bananas, the U.S. Government removed the democratically elected president of Guatemala in secret by faking a radio station that reported a fake military invasion of Guatemala.