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TIL: Many grains grown in the US, Canada, and the UK, are chemically dried or desiccated using glyphospate, an herbicide found to cause cancer.

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yV5pp TIL that “Goodwill Industries, a tax-exempt non-profit that generates more than $5 billion in annual revenue and pays its executives six-figure and seven-figure salaries, pays some of its workers as little as $0.22 per hour. Why? Because they are disabled.”
oRZkL TIL Huey Lewis suffered from a sudden loss of hearing in 2018, which led to his recent decision to sell his music catalogue.
Zk8G TIL Bob Denver (aka Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island) is the great grandson of James W. Denver, the man for whom the city of Denver CO is named.
GwQ5 TIL Houston has a program that allows citizens to give tickets to those who abuse handicap parking spaces, after taking a four hour course.
WkeX4 TIL of a Russian experiment to domesticate red foxes. As of 2016: 270 tame vixens and 70 tame males. Russian wiki says they started selling them overseas in 2011