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TIL in 2010, the Texas Department of Agriculture said a food policy would be clarified after a third grader was given a week-long lunch detention at school for having a Jolly Rancher. The school district had said it risked losing funding if it permitted students to eat “minimal nutrition” foods.

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gr7wA TIL Benjamin Franklin was fond of dating older women, (in)famously writing 8 reasons why they were better than their younger counterparts. Among them, he stated that they naturally provided birth control, were discrete, and could not be distinguished from younger women from the girdle downwards.
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KOGm6 TIL After the sack of Baghdad, the Caliph was surrendered to the Mongols on the belief that their practices prevented them from shedding the blood of a man of such a high royal and religious status. Sure enough, the Mongols kept to their custom by wrapping him in a rug and trampling him to death
KYNy9 TIL In 2019 a man in the United States had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia and four years later his semen was the same as the donor. So, if he had children, they wouldn't have his DNA....he is now considered a chimera.
v1LJx TIL in 1862, Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered to US General Ulysses Grant and in 1944, his son, Lt General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., died at the Battle of Okinawa.