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TIL That the last time the US Government passed a budget on time was in 1996 (for FY 1997)

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e08b TIL A teenager named Bradley Wernham was single handedly responsible for an increase of 500 percent in crime in a town called Chelmsford. Wernham commited over 660 burglaries and thefts before finally getting caught.
nWjWr TIL in 1959 residents of Cortez, Colorado observed a UFO landing which became a local legend. Declassified files from the US military 50 years later revealed the real incident was an emergency landing of a top secret U-2 spy plane
V4nB TIL the color of the twist tie on bread products indicates what day of the week it was made.
9wxMm TIL of José Bové, a French sheep farmer and activist. On 1999, he became a national here by dismantling a McDonald's under construction in Millau to protest WTO backing the right of the U.S. to export hormone induced beef to Europe.
epKP4 TIL that in 1950 a recording project of Kenyan songs from Kipsigis people captured songs about Chemirocha or Jimmy Rodgers the blue yodler and father of country and blues. They thought he was half man half goat.