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TIL: That after the Kent state shootings that 58% of respondents blamed the students while 11% blamed the National Guardsmen.

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jNPAN TIL that the original name for gasoline was Cazeline, named after marketer James Cassel. A shopkeeper in Dublin sold counterfeit Cazeline and replaced the “C” in the name with a “G,” thus coining the name “gazeline.”
xVVk TIL Californians don’t pay sales tax on fast food if they utter the magic words “To Go”.
VeW0 TIL kraft singles (processed cheese) cannot be advertised as cheese because US FDA standards states a food can only be identified as a cheese if it contains ‘at least 51% real cheese’
8XM8 TIL Don Black, former Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of Storm Front, was shot in the chest by Jerry Ray, brother of the assassin that killed Martin Luther King Jr.
GYpVQ TIL on the upper floors of the 2700-ft Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the sun is still seen for several minutes after it has set at ground level. Dubai clerics have ruled that residents above the 80th floor should wait 2 additional minutes to break their Ramadan fast, and those above the 150th, 3 minutes.