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TIL a farmer hid the construction and existence of a 4-bedroom castle under a huge pile of hay bales for 6 years. When he thought he’d outlasted the statute of limitations, he unveiled it to the public, the city council found out, and immediately ordered its destruction.

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lRoB TIL football player Mardy Gilyard was kicked out of the University of Cincinnati and owed the school $10,000. He then worked 4 jobs simultaneously and slept in his car just to get back into school, eventually becoming the leading wide receiver in UC history.
GYeg4 TIL two months before President Franklin Pierce’s inauguration, his last surviving child was killed in a train accident. He refused to be sworn in on a bible, believing God was punishing him for his past sins.
xVpR5 TIL female fruit bats give their partners oral during sex, to make it last longer. The male is also capable of licking it's own penis
lWQ5 TIL: The results from a recent study of 900 faculty members from over 371 schools nationwide show that Women are twice as likely to be hired over equally-qualified men in STEM tenure-track positions.
jXma TIL Jif natural peanut butter has to be labeled as “peanut butter spread” because it doesn’t meet the FDA requirements for peanut content–its “non-peanut ingredients” exceed 10 percent.