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TIL that weed and hops are from the same plant family
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TIL in 2015 a man in Iowa stole a bag of dog poop out of a truck bed when he realized he couldn’t steal the truck. Said bag was valued at a whopping $1.
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TIL in WWII, a dog named Gander was a sergeant of the Canadian Royal Rifles. He fought on the frontlines against the Japanese on several occasions. Gander was posthumously decorated when he picked up a live Japanese grenade and charged enemy lines with it.
RBw8
TIL that when the Confederate Army was low on gunpowder, bat caves were raided for poop. Bat guano’s high nitrate content provided a key ingredient for the production of gunpowder.
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TIL the fallacy fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
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TIL that Laura Branigan's "Spanish Eddie" song is about a real person, an NYC gangster and then a city Youth Services Agency agent, who successfully organized and almost succeeded in establishing a truce between most of the city street gangs to reduce violence, and got shot while realizing the plan.