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TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German in origin, but is named for an English-American chocolate maker Samuel German

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6MoQ TIL that Washington state did not officially ban sex with animals until 2005. The impetus for the ban was the highly publicized death of a man who ruptured his colon during anal sex with a horse at an animal brothel.
RGja TIL Tony Hawk was tested to have an I.Q. of 144 during school.
JBoQ TIL That a 50-year old Zookeeper in China Licked a 3-month old monkey’s anus to prevent it from choking to death on a peanut.
R7Yoa TIL that Git-hub, a code hosting platform is protecting priceless open-source codes by storing multiple copies in archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain to last at least 1,000 years so that future historians can find it !
9wpwm TIL that Sesame Street was designed to build up the self-worth of black children through the presentation of positive black images. It purposefully presented an integrated, harmonious community to challenge the marginalization of African-Americans routinely seen on elsewhere in society