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TIL Saudi Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing this image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter

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Zpxyp TIL KFC sent a painting to a guy of himself riding the Colonel piggyback while holding a drumstick for figuring out why they only follow the Spice Girls and 6 guys named Herb on Twitter
gMGYW TIL Oyster mushrooms are carnivorous and feed on roundworms by secreting a toxin that paralizes and dissolves them so they can be digested by the mushroom
9wglp TIL that April Fool's Day has existed since at least the mid-sixteenth century. The earliest unambiguous reference is a poem published in 1561 by the Flemish writer Eduard De Dene, which described a nobleman who sent his servant back and forth on various absurd errands on April 1st
7r7jr TIL a study done in 2020 found Americans are the unhappiest they have been in nearly 50 years. Only 14% of American adults say they're happy, down from 31% in 2018.
b9Wx7 TIL that, in 2013, PayPal accidentally paid $92,233,720,368,547,800 - 92 quadrillion dollars - into a Pennsylvanian man's account. His account was quickly returned to its initial amount of $0.