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TIL that a bottle of $1.99 wine, “Two Buck Chuck”, beat 2300 other wines to win the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition

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gr9p9 TIL about a bird called a green jay, a brilliant green, yellow, and blue jay of the tropics whose range barely stretches to southern Texas.
6E0M8 TIL in 2005, Astronaut Stephen Robinson had to fix the Shuttle Discovery in orbit to make it to Earth alive. Material sticking out between the heat panels had to be removed to avoid burning up on re-entry. He improvised tools, including a saw made with duct tape, and removed it on a spacewalk.
deV7 TIL the word Dildo comes from a Latin word meaning to “open wide”
QNG4L TIL that more New Deal relief funds were allocated to counties where a larger share of the population had radios, even when taking into account factors of income and wealth, suggesting that politicians are more sensitive to the interests of better informed citizens
5YdKR TIL that for the private citizen, there are no penalties for violating the US flag code. And that, "the Flag Code serves as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag."