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TIL Honey Boo Boo is banned from selling Girl Scout cookies

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rNLDw TIL that approximately 80% of faculty members (i.e., professors) with Ph.D.s in the U.S. were trained at just 20% of universities, while the five most common doctoral training universities account for one in eight U.S.-trained faculty members.
nbeP TIL along the busy highways of Australia, volunteers hand out coffee, tea , and snacks to sleepy drivers. The Stop, Revive and Survive program has been running for more than 20 years with one objective: to reduce road collisions by alleviating driver fatigue.
wg08 TIL that Converse Chuck Taylors have fuzz on the soles so that they can be classified as slippers, which are subject to much lower U.S. import tariffs than sneakers.
YpPGW TIL: Grocery store shelves are rented by companies to put their products out. Eye level and the perimeter are the most expensive
mx9nv TIL The Honeymooners (1955-1956) sitcom was so successful that its formula (big oaf husband, smart sassy wife, zany neighbor) have been used on hundreds of other shows like The Flintstones, Jeffersons, Roseanne, Simpsons, Family Guy, King of Queens, Home Improvement, Family Matters, Martin, etc...