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TIL the Walmart heirs are funding an anti-solar campaign.

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vNgR TIL: The Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization gives only 20% of its donations to cancer research and pays its CEO $684,000 per year.
WkMb9 TIL Garter snakes will retain poisons they eat in their liver, making themselves temporarily poisonous to their predators. They are also technically venomous, but have long lost the ability to practically use the venom they produce.
xGJk TIL Judge Denny Chin received no letters of support for Bernie Madoff’s character, and chose to sentence him to the maximum sentence of 150 years
gMONb TIL there are catfish in France which beach themselves in order to eat pigeons
p04G TIL some languages have a distinct style of speech that is only used when the speaker is in the presence of their mother in law, called “avoidance speech”.