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TIL the Kool-Aid Man has gone back to not wearing pants
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TIL that there is a roadside attraction in Plains, Georgia called the Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue. It depicts a large peanut with a big smile (modeled after Carter’s), and was built in 1976 to support his presidential election. Jimmy Carter himself hates it.
Y8ar
TIL when trees evolved, it took 60 mil. years for fungi to evolve the ability to break down lignin. Trees fell over and didn’t decompose, storing vast amounts of carbon, resulting in an oxygen-rich atmosphere that favored enormous insects; burning in massive fires; and producing our stores of coal.
Vyvk
TIL Netflix is (almost) 20 years old
E1PmP
TIL bulletproof glass can be manufactured to be bulletproof one way, but allow you to shoot through it the other way.
1KAO
TIL that an assassination attempt was made against retired US President Theodore Roosevelt- he was saved by a 50 page speech in his breast pocket. Roosevelt then proceeded to deliver said speech with a bullet lodged in his ribs.