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TIL: Selena's Killer Will be Eligible for parole In 2025-

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NLgN TIL that dolphins likes to get high using Puffer Fish neurotoxins as recreative dope
a8W4b TIL about the Slave Narrative project that took place during the Great Depression. Created by the WPA, out-of-work writers were hired to collect the life stories of former slaves. 2,300 first-person accounts were recorded and archived.
kJZjB TIL that in 1989, a group called "The Breeders" caused a medfly infestation in California to protest spraying of the insecticide Malathion, devastating crops and costing $60 million in eradication efforts. The state ceased this spraying in response.
9Yvgm TIL That until the 10th century there was no set way of appointing the pope. Pope Fabian was made pope because a dove landed on his head at an opportune time.
jWjv TIL that President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours.