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TIL - “Wierd” Al Yankovic was Valedictorian of his senior class, where he also founded the Volcano Worshippers club, “which did absolutely nothing. We started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook.”

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b9dvZ TIL of the ABC Islands bear, a unique subspecies of grizzly bear found on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands in Southeast Alaska (known as the ABC islands) Isolated from the mainland these bears look similar to grizzlies but have a unique DNA structure that relates them brown and polar bears
grdab TIL Tonic water was initially marketed for its quinine (known to treat Malaria) but due to its bitter taste, British soldiers in India added Gin (which was rationed to them), thus creating the Gin and Tonic
1G5X TIL Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.
WkppY TIL the slogan “Don’t Mess With Texas” came from a 1985 campaign aimed at reducing litter on Texas Roadways.
wNk8 TIL an Ohio man bought 3 plots next to his wife and had his sons build a see-through plexiglass casket so that he could be buried sitting astride his custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide motorcycle.