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TIL Chocolate chip cookies are only 85 years old.

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LpEV TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
jNryE TIL Dan Snyder, who owns the Washington Redskins ruined the life of a National Park Ranger by cutting trees down along the Potomac River so he could see the river from his house. The trees were located in a national park, and the ranger who raised concern about the trees was raided by US Marshals
M46b TIL: In 2001 the DEA (drug enforcement agency) tried to ban glow sticks and pacifiers because they considered them “drug paraphernalia”
xVj4g TIL that the term "Down Syndrome" was adopted globally at the behest of Mongolia to replace the offensive term 'Mongoloid'
gyEy TIL After Paul McCartney dreamed the melody to “Yesterday” and woke up thinking he subconsciously plagiarized the song, he would play a demo to other bands to make sure the song wasn’t theirs.