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TIL that the candy company Mars Inc. is the largest owner of stand-alone veterinary clinics in the United States"

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VBRpp TIL NASA has their own SWAT team
kkg7 TIL in 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of ‘Gone with the Wind’ called 'The Wind Done Gone’, which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara’s slaves, who were glad to be rid of her.
naJW TIL Genghis Khan may have been killed by an arrow to the knee
MBk0 TIL a teenager killed four pedestrians while drunk driving and was given no prison time by claiming affluenza: a mental illness from being too wealthy
xVEJg TIL Christian Heinrich Heineken "the infant scholar of Lübeck" could speak fluent German at 10 months old. He read the Pentateuch at age one, and read the entire Bible in Latin by age three. Later that year he recited his own History of Denmark when visiting the King of Denmark. He died at age four.