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TIL that people that ate candy cigarettes as children are statistically more likely to smoke cigarettes as adults

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mxyNP TIL that some hikers and researchers have spotted wild birds swearing. It is belived that birds that escaped from captivity teach other wild birds how to speak and swear in English.
M7NN8 TIL that Japan’s Imperial line has Korean roots
LkOB9 TIL: Because in 1971 15 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were heroin addicts, the government started operation Golden Flow which required soldiers to pass a drug test in order to return home.
oGPo TIL In 2003, Matt White, a minor league pitcher, purchased a parcel of land from his elderly aunt for $50,000. The land, he later discovered, contained a rock quarry of Goshen stone - a substance commonly used in sidewalks - with a market value of over $2 billion.
p8ybN TIL that Roger Fenton's 1855 Crimean War photo series is the first historic attempt to portray a war campaign with the help of photography