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TIL Bill Nye’s ex-fiancée trespassed onto Bill’s property and sprayed herbicide on his plants to damage his garden.

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JYVYv TIL the word cheesecake has sexual connotations and was used in the 1660s to describe promiscuous women
mwNE TIL there was a famous 18th century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His original name was Potatoes. Potatoes acquired the strange spelling of his nickname, Pot-8-Os, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it.
ZeAQ TIL that there is a raisin farmer in California being sued by the US Government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for selling too many raisins. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and is now awaiting a decision.
JVlB TIL that the apples sown by Johnny Appleseed were largely sour and inedible, and were usually used to make hard cider rather than be baked in pies or eaten raw.
Pjvn TIL that American soldiers reinforced the idea that their base was “protected by a force field” in Iraq and it worked and lead to less attacks.