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TIL Cows in America are being fed candy such as Skittles as a cheap alternative to corn, which came to the general public's attention early 2017 after a news story broke about a truck that spilled hundreds of thousands of Skittles onto a road in Wisconsin.

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p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.
awOao TIL Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were established by the same financier, Lou Pearlman, who, among numerous other schemes, infamously classified himself as the “sixth member of the band” to siphon profits away from the artists.
PY0PZ TIL there was a bull named Bodacious, often described as “The World’s Most Dangerous Bull.” He was infamously known to incapacitate and injure rodeo riders, often crushing their facial bones with his signature power move. He was forced into retirement in 1995 for fear of injuring more competitors.
KY9rQ TIL that a year after he accidentally solved two famously unsolved statistical problems by mistaking them for homework, George Dantzig's same two proofs were accepted as his thesis; his 'unsolved problem' story loosely served as the setup for the plot of Good Will Hunting.
RLOa TIL that “international versions” of textbooks exist. they are exactly the same but made with lower quality materials. They can be up to 75% less expensive and are illegal to buy in the US.