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TIL MAGA - you know, like Make America Great Again - is in Nigerian parlance a word that means easily fooled idiot.

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XE9eE TIL On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2017, children’s author J K Rowling was voted the most inspirational businesswoman in a survey of UK freelancers
xV5ng TIL that Harvest Mice like crawling into flowers to eat the pollen and sometimes even fall asleep in them.
XErjX TIL in 2015, Whole Foods tried to sell Asparagus Water for $6 (literally three stalks of asparagus in a bottle of water). Twitter users made fun of the company for selling such a ridiculously pricey item. The company's CEO then issued an apology and pulled off the product from the shelves.
BrYPr TIL that the 1989 rap album: As Nasty As They Wanna Be, resulted in a court case where the federal government wanted to censor the music on the album due to its obscenity, had they won, the precedent set would have made Hip-Hop artists lose the right to their freedom of speech.
LkP8p TIL After almost 50 years of use and dubbed as the largest landfill in the world, the Staten Island NY landfill has slowly coming back to life as a park (Freshkills Park). The bucolic rolling meadows conceal a topography that's made entirely of garbage.