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TIL in 2008, a Mad Cow Disease beef recall was impelled by a whistleblower who took illegal, undercover footage of the sick cows.

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VM79G TIL that New Zealand was undiscovered and completely devoid of human beings no more than 800 years ago.
NXX0J Til of Honopu Valley which is the most secluded beach on Kauai. Beaching ANYTHING on it is a $10000 fine per day. The only way to access it legally is to swim from a boat off shore.
LkO1P TIL that 26 of the 50 states of the U.S. are named after Native American tribes.
ldg5 TIL that for Christmas, Catalan children “feed” a hollowed-out log with a painted face, then later sing a song and beat the log with a stick until it defecates presents. The first line of the song is “Shit, log!”
wL0xE TIL of the Harvard Sentences, a set of phonetically-balanced words used to test audio quality. It is used to test phone call quality, text-to-speech programming, and more.