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TIL: In 2009 the city council of Madison, WI voted to make the plastic lawn flamingo the city’s offical bird

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p8pNQ TIL during the Roaring 20's, the average American consumed 72 sticks of butter per year. Fast forward to 1992, and that number dropped to 4 sticks per year.
GAZBj TIL that Josh Peck's birth was the result of an extramarital affair, with his father being a married co-worker of his mother.
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pbyZ TIL OF SLAPP suits, frivolous lawsuits designed to suppress free speech by burdening people with legal fees