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TIL 'Protect and Serve' is a Marketing Slogan -- It's Not Real

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O5d4 TIL until 2003, Blackcurrant plants were banned in the united states due to carrying a pine-tree-attacking fungus, so it’s not a common flavour and most americans have never tasted them.
78b9L TIL that Michael Jackson died while Glastonbury Festival was taking place in the UK. Within hours, souvenir shops around the site had begun selling T-shirts with "I was at Glasto 09 when Jacko died" printed on them.
xxd7 TIL that of 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading accounts for nearly 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls’ high school athletics
xlyb TIL that bears can drastically reduce their heart rate when injured as a defense mechanism against blood loss.
9wWm TIL: In Churchill, Manitoba residents leave car doors open so passing people can jump in the presence of a polar bear.