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Today I learned that Ring Around the Rosie is most likely not about the Great Plague.

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Zp56B TIL That Cadbury Chocolate Has a Football Team
80vG TIL Ray Bradbury, in an interview with the Paris Review, stated “You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t.”
Z8lk4 TIL Gerald Ford was the first person to be both vice president and president without being elected by the people. He was appointed vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned and he succeeded to the presidency when Nixon resigned.
b94oZ TIL that boomerangs used for hunting are not designed for a curved return flight, but to fly straight and hit their target. Returning boomerangs are at most used to frighten birds into movement.
oRMVK TIL in 1993 Canadian election, Progressive Conservative party ran an ad focusing Liberal party leader's facial paralysis. PC party lost 154 seats and got only 2.