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TIL that a team of 500 goats helped save the Ronald Reagan library in California from wildfires, by eating through 13 acres of surrounding scrubland. This created a vital fire break.

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BG0b TIL Mark Whalberg served 45 days for attempted murder after beating a middle-aged Vietnamese man unconscious while calling him “Vietnamese f*king sht”
b6XrZ TIL Helter Skelter is a Roller Coaster in Britian
9pJD TIL that, following a man’s attempt to sue Satan, the United States’ legal opinion on the Devil is that he might exist, and if so, is most likely to be found living in New Hampshire.
PYbZ TIL that the United States is 45th worst in terms of income disparity, ranking just behind Cameroon, Guyana and Iran. (CIA World Factbook)
4YGa TIL that on April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, his response was “Well, the people, I would say… There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”