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TIL that scorpions are arachnids

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J1QVQ TIL former US president Jimmy Carter and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are related by way of their great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy.
Dv8e TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French.
QNdg6 TIL Springfield from the Simpsons is commonly depicted as being located in an unnamed 51st state that exists at the tri-point of Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. The State's Capital City is named "Capital City" and it supposedly has 2000 McDonald's Locations.
Wr84 TIL that Red Bull recommends that the drink should not be mixed with alcohol. It’s even printed on the can.
1mo4 TIL that the lyrics from The Byrds’ 1965 song ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, in the King James Bible.