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TIL Jesse Jackson admitted several times he enjoyed spitting in white people’s food.

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aMo TIL, the actual span of time that was supposed to have lapsed in the movie Groundhog Day was around 10,000 years.
MpjV TIL Margaret Thompson was the first woman to win an Olympic medal in a shooting sport (silver) in 1976 after tying with the gold medal winner. When the Olympic committee refused a shootoff, the gold medalist pulled Thompson onto the gold medal platform with him.
VMEWp TIL Car dealerships are always next to each other because, even though it increases competition, it creates a "destination" for car buyers, increasing traffic for all of them. It's called an "Auto Row."
KOWOJ TIL that many plant stores hot glue fake flowers onto cactus
wLGVJ TIL it's been 125,000 generations since the emergence of human species, 7,500 generations since human physiology reached what is essentially its modern state, 500 generations since the agricultural revolution, and ONLY 20 generations since the scientific revolution!