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TIL North Carolina gave $20 million in taxpayer dollars to clean up dead farm animals after Hurricane Florence, then also reimbursed farmers for the animals

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VDgm TIL That the Wall album is technically a loop that goes on forever, because the first and last words of the first and last songs come together to make the sentence “Isn’t this…where we came in?,” thus restarting the entire album.
0lAL TIL a Canada couple engaged in a neighbor feud dumped massive piles of fresh cow manure along their property line. A judge found them guilty of using the poop as a tool of harassment and fined them $15,000.
YElB TIL That Punk’d was originally called Harassment and aimed at regular people. It was re-tooled after a couple sued for 10 million dollars after a prank with a fake dead body backfired
16l68 TIL that Connecticut-born Ann Petry was the first African-American woman to sell over 1 million copies of a book with her 1946 novel The Street.
dD9Lr TIL Despite being invaded by Axis forces during WWII, Egypt remained nominally neutral through most of the war before officially entering it in February of 1945.