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TIL Honey Boo Boo is banned from selling Girl Scout cookies

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6E78w TIL the US corn belt during corn season does more photosynthesis than anywhere else on the planet
LmmZ TIL that Vladimir the Great chose to convert to Christianity instead of Islam, mainly because Islam doesn’t allow alcoholic consumption. He remarked “Drinking is the joy of all Rus’. We cannot exist without that pleasure.”
ep6Eb TIL The film Crazy Heart was produced by Country Music Television and was originally set to be a direct-to-video release. Instead, it grossed nearly 7x its budget and won two Academy Awards.
wLW0J TIL that the state of Vermont not only takes its nickname ("The Green Mountain State") from the Green Mountains, it is named after them. The French words Verts and Monts are literally translated as "Green Mountains".
D159g TIL that there is a grizzly bear in Canada named “The Boss” that has been known to have killed several black bears, hit by a train, and use human railways and highways to travel yet hasn’t been known be aggressive toward humans.