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TIL that “frito paws” or “corn chip paws” can be attributed to Pseudomonas and Proteus bacteria.

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GAXLE TIL that in the early 1960s, Texas AM radio station KXOL in Fort Worth had among its staff future comedian George Carlin, future CBS reporter Bob Schieffer, and future Price is Right announcer Rod Roddy.
awl9N TIL Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido was murdered by a knife-wielding drunk guy a few months after Lincoln’s assassination.
R9Qw TIL Before a hurricane, Walmart will fill their stores with strawberry poptarts. This is a result from their data mining and finding stores sold 7x more strawberry poptarts before the storm.
vdYx TIL that Bea Arthur (Golden Girls Dorothy) was a truck driving Marine.
neYbW TIL Czechoslovakia split up against the wishes of its people: "only 37% of Slovaks and 36% of Czechs favoured dissolution"