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TIL in 2012, 159 donors made up 60% of Super PAC funding.

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4krdJ TIL that in 1987, the movie Mannequin made more at the box office than Spaceballs, The Princess Bride, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, and Raising Arizona.
E1RPx TIL that a hot tea is the better choice, than a cold drink, to cool down during heat.
R7N68 TIL that The Ivy League is an American athletic conference of the sports teams of 8 colleges, not a title given to these colleges on any academic basis
99NX TIL of the “suicide palm” recently discovered in Madagascar that flowers itself to death. The plant grows for decades before exploding with nectar-rich blossoms that deplete the plant’s nutrients and cause it to die
9nEQ TIL that a convent of nuns in the Middle Ages began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours together. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to force the nuns to stop their meowing.