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TIL that Country Time Lemonade has a program in place to help reimburse children that are fined for running lemonade stands.

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BAbb TIL: When it first came out, the film “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” was criticize by Washington Insiders for depicting the Senate as corrupt. Yet it was banned in countries like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for showing that Democracy works.
Ooo4a TIL that redheads are likely more sensitive to thermal pain and are more resistant to lidocaine, a type of anaesthesia. This is caused by mutations of the melanocortin 1 receptor which is responsible for red colored hair.
NgX8 TIL that the NBA’s all-time leading scorer (with 38,387 points), Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, has become an author and prominent historian since retiring from the NBA as well as a cultural ambassador for the United States.
GdVJ TIL that the waiting list for season tickets for the Green Bay Packers is over 100,000 names, and about 30 years. In Green Bay and other Wisconsin cities, it is a common practice to put a baby’s name on on the waiting list as soon as they are born.
gM8W9 TIL Uber paid hackers $100,000 to cover up a data breach affecting 57 million customers and drivers