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TIL the costs of tinned sardine are: tin 47%, sardines 17%, labor 14%, oil 13%, misc 9%

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WkNmN TIL beekeepers are advised not to eat bananas due to their smell making bees agressive because it releases the same pheromones that alert bees to attack
LkLb9 TIL Dandelions are not indigenous to North America and were introduced by European settlers
b6Ma9 TIL that in 1996, Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, casually choke-slammed two protesters to the ground at a public event while making his way through a crowd. It is known as the “Shawinigan Handshake.”
nWrkY TIL In the 1950s the CIA would spread rumors of vampires in the Philippines to dissuade communist rebels. They would ambush the back member of a patrol silently, kill them before draining them of blood and poking two holes in their neck before leaving the body just off the road.
A9En TIL: Patty Cannon was the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.