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TIL an advertising agency faked a movement to support book burning in order to create animosity against them and so subsequently save a local public library that was facing closure due to budget cuts. People rallied against the 'book burners' and voted to save the library.

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6o87 TIL that Franken-Berry (children’s cereal) Used to Turn People’s Poo Pink Due to an Inability To Break Down the Heavily-Dyed Cereal. The Symptom Was Referred to as “Franken-Berry Stool”
p8B1Z TIL that grapes can cause kidney failure in cats.
6xGm TIL that an ancient Carthaginian explorer discovered the Gorillas and thought they were “savage people”.
6KxW TIL early printing presses used the letter “y” for the Middle English letter thorn (þ). “Ye” (definitive article), as in “ye olde”(pronounced “the old”), became commonplace, which contributed to the transition of “ye”(noun) to “thou” to avoid confusion, which eventually lead to “thou” to “you”.
ZkAR TIL Nestlé admitted that slave labor was involved in the production of its Fancy Feast catfood brand in Thailand.