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TIL Baby Blue (Badfinger song, the one from Breaking Bad's last scene) was written about a lady called Dixie Armstrong, whom Pete Ham really liked.

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b9Vl9 TIL "Chemist" wood ants create a powerful anitbiotic from tree resin and formic acid to protect themselves from epidemics and deadly fungi
OoBR TIL that Snoop Dogg was a member of the Nation of Islam up until earlier this year, when he claimed to be “born again” and converted to Rastafarianism. He also claims to be the reincarnation of Bob Marley.
6jpw TIL In 1939, the famous and notorious gangster, Al Capone donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to the former Union Memorial Hospital in return for the excellent treatment and care he was offered and one of the trees still remains and blossoms outside the East 33rd Street entrance each spring.
7reDx TIL A WW2 pigeon named Mary of Exeter survived an assassination attempt by a German warhawk, was shot, hit with shrapnel, and survived a bombing of her loft while delivering messages across the English Channel to France.
OoaD4 TIL the worlds largest farm, Mudanjiang City Dairy Farm is located in China and covers an area of 22.5 million acres. This is the same size as Portugal.