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TIL in a poll of 813 UK shoppers, 95% said their top reason for buying organic food was to avoid pesticides, despite the fact that organic farmers can and do indeed utilize pesticides and fungicides to protect their crops.

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ANRg4 TIL the song "Hey Man, Nice Shot" was written about the televised public suicide of disgraced Pennsylvania state treasurer Budd Dwyer.
lnGG TIL four undocumented students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, beat MIT to win the national underwater robot championship in 2005
BgyRK TIL as a result of Captain Sully landing Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, New York went on to exterminate more than 70000 birds
V1lG TIL that the fastest supercomputer in 1976 ran at 80MHz and cost $80 million. Compare that to the cheapest (via http://bit.ly/14FE8Qf
r0Zo TIL the reporter who broke the story about the CIA selling Cocaine in the US had his reputation smeared, career destroyed, and was found dead from TWO gunshot wounds to the head… it was ruled a suicide