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TIL the Chicago Sun-Times bought and and ran a bar to show and uncover corruption.

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5YDO9 TIL there was a popular chocolate product from Lebanon called Ras El Abed, meaning "slave's head". It has recently changed its name.
yVjDe TIL that the original Grimace had four arms and was a villain.
W7YGA TIL about the Justin Morgan horse, one of the foundational American horse breeds. The line originated with a prepotent horse named Figure, his genes were dominant in his offspring regardless of the mare. Popular as a cavalry horse during the Civil War, the breed was nearly killed off.
OonpR TIL that there are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than atoms on Earth. Any time you pick up a well-shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again.
j6EbX TIL Pitched up tigers sounds like house cats