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TIL that strawberries today are bred to be bigger and look more delicious but on average, taste worse than they did 100 years ago.

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e0wX6 TIL that 'family values' activist Terry Rakolta wrote to several advertisers asking for them to pull their ads from the show, Married... With Children. Some did but the media coverage it got is what made it a major hit. The cast and crew sent Rakolta flowers every year they were renewed.
Me8ka TIL about the Black Hole Era, a period of time in the future where the universe will spend the vast majority of it's overall life shuttered in absolute darkness with all the stars in the night sky having died out and space itself dominated by nothing but super massive black holes for eons upon eons
BgyZD TIL there was an animated sitcom between The Flintstones and The Simpsons called Wait Til Your Father Gets Home.
XE51D TIL spiked dog collars don't only "look cool", they originated from actual sharp spiked wolf collars used to protect shepherd dogs from wolf attaks.
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