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TIL Not walking your dog is a crime in the city of Rome.
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TIL Hershey's once developed a chocolate bar for the US Army that would remain solid up to 49C (120F) and was poison gas proof but was also very bitter to prevent soldiers from eating it unless in an emergency. Troops called it "Hitler's Secret Weapon" because of what it would do to their bowels.
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TIL that Christopher Columbus, when he heard that one of his men had sighted land in the Americas (earning a lifetime pension for it), claimed that he had seen it the day before but simply not bothered to mention it, and was given the pension instead.
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TIL in 1878, with $11 of savings, Alonzo Herndon walked out of the town he grew up sharecropping in and developed an empire of barber shops, real estate, and the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. He became a millionaire and a charter member of the Niagara Movement and National Negro Business League.
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TIL “chickadee-dee-dee” is a predator alarm; the more “dee"s, the higher the alert level
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TIL Timothy Cole, while always maintaining his innocence despite an offer for a shorter sentence, died 14 years into a 25 year sentence for a rape DNA tests later showed he did not commit