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TIL there is no upper age limit for Peace Corps volunteers and there are about 500 volunteers over age 50 (7% of their volunteers)

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kOyv7 TIL that a man bet his friend that he could make any house famous. To accomplish this, he wrote thousands of letters requesting services at 54 Berners Street. So many people showed up on the day that parts of London were shut down. The man (who watched it unfold from across the street) won the bet.
xVLEg TIL that the most of the methane cows produce doesn't come out in farts but instead from burps.
BLVW TIL Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”
6EDnJ TIL Walt Disney originally considered building Disney World in New Orleans, but instead turned it down because he found out that "Florida offered Disney everything while Louisiana’s politicians demanded everything" by jacking up prices for the planned area
KY9nR TIL: Harambe the Gorilla is named after the 1988 song "Harambe (Working Together for Freedom)" by Rita Marley, widow of Bob Marley.