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TIL In 1986, a beer drinking goat was elected mayor of a small town in Texas, USA

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4Xy6J TIL of the Saratoga Springs Legend. A claim that crisps were invented in New York, despite being invented in England decades earlier. This legend continued into at least the 1970s when a major advertising campaign attributed the invention of crisps to the US.
G055 TIL hundreds of vehicles involved with Volkswagen’s Diesel-Emissions Scandal are sitting in the abandoned Pontiac Silverdome parking lot
dkyK TIL George Jung, as portrayed by Johnny Depp in “Blow”, was granted early released from prison in June, and is now living in a halfway house.
GAnK5 TIL that Jimmy Carter was not a fan of Salman Rushdie's work and wrote a 1989 op-ed calling his book an insult
ANDwo TIL of the many uses of Spanish Moss by humans dating back over 3000 years.