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TIL that a properly pollenated ear of corn will have one strand of corn silk for every kernel, there will always be an equal number of both

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RoK9 TIL I learned there was a conspiracy theory that alleged the CIA had a woman give false testimony to the House of Representatives against the Iraqis in 1990 so the U.S. would back Kuwait. In 1992, it was proven true.
9YAg6 TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track of the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700; someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.
KO4N6 TIL people with epilepsy were forbidden to marry in 17 states, until 1956. The last state to repeal these laws happened in 1980.
R7XA4 TIL that on the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave me “colly birds”, aka blackbirds, not “calling birds” until “calling birds” became more popular in the 1970s.
p8W0A TIL the inclusion of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1992's Wayne's World helped propel the song to #2 on the charts seventeen years after the song was first released.