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TIL in 2018, Two Raccoons drunk on crab apples cause false rabies scare in West Virginia

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78p4r TIL in 2022, the DEA seized more than 10,000 pounds of Fentanyl and more than 50 million Fentanyl pills. This was more than double the amount seized in 2021 and enough to kill every person in the United States.
69dBQ TIL: The only number one song from Chuck Berry, "The Father of Rock and Roll", is the song My Ding-a-Ling.
EgM07 TIL about the Murder of Lynette White which happened in 1988, initially three men Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller were convicted of her murder but later had their convictions overturned through appeal. Jeffrey Gafoor would later be convicted in 2003 for her murder thanks to DNA.
wLe5E TIL that Aladdin animator Randy Cartwright described working on the Magic Carpet as challenging, since it is only a rectangular shape, that expresses itself through pantomime. Cartwright kept folding a piece of cloth while animating to see how to position the Carpet.
WkYMA TIL that scientists have theorized for years on how to create graphene (the strongest material on earth). Two researchers won the 2010 Nobel Prize by simply using scotch tape to peel it off of graphite.