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TIL Mars Candy recently bought VCA animal clinics in 2017

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kOA6d TIL Robert E Lee was depressed during and after the civil war. After Gettysburg he walked around telling his soldiers "It's all my fault" and before his surrender he was observed to be deeply saddened, wandering aimlessly by himself, carrying a piece of chicken for which he could find no hunger
7Zwb TIL Homer Hickam presented a 16 year old High School student with a scholarship to the United States Advanced Space Academy to compensate for her expulsion from School and arrest on felony charges after her science experiment resulted in a small explosion.
opXr TIL NASA has it’s own radio station called ‘Third Rock Radio’ which plays Rock/Indie/Alternative music with NASA news items and mission updates embedded throughout
O9nX TIL singer Edwyn Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which left him able to say only four things: “yes,” “no,” “Grace Maxwell” and “the possibilities are endless”
woMN6 TIL that the term "canola oil" a contraction of “Canada” and “oil“, was a name coined to avoid the less marketable word for the product, "rapeseed oil"