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TIL Tim Hortons created a new donut based off last nights episode of how I met your mother.

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OoRBR TIL in 1949, 15 ‘smokejumpers’ were parachuted in to deal with the Mann Gulch wildfire, but they soon had to run for their lives. Only 3 survived, one of whom did so by lighting his own escape fire, to give him a charred patch to enter, so that the main fire went right around him
OoPMa TIL the invention of the vibrator preceded the vacuum cleaner and electric iron by a decade, after doctors grew tired of having to manually climax the ‘hysteria’ out of women.
5VeyD TIL Andrew Jackson the 7th President of the Unites States used to hate Banks and Paper Notes
4X5Yw TIL two high school students found that despite advertising claims that “the blackcurrants in Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges,” the drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C and one orange juice brand had over three times more. The company were taken to court and fined NZ$217,500.
oR9nA TIL of Peter Kinloch, who went blind shortly after summiting Mount Everest and had to be abandoned by his team