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TIL that Oreo cookies are actually the knock-off brand of another company, Hydrox.

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8axjV TIL of Red Flag Laws almost enacted in Pennsylvania in 1896 which would require all motorists upon chance encounters with cattle or livestock to immediately stop the vehicle, disassemble it, and conceal the components out of sight behind nearby bushes until equestrian or livestock is pacified.
6EOl TIL bread tie colors have a specific meaning
vPRyR TIL that in 2017 an 8 year old learned how to drive on YouTube and successfully drove to McDonalds while following traffic laws
1D57 TIL Human Zoos existed. “These were popular human exhibits where whites went to watch Black people who were on display. The Black people were usually forced to live behind gates and in cages similar to animals in a zoo today.”
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