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TIL of Butterball's turkey cooking hotline. Every year they receive 10,000+ (panicked?) calls around Thanksgiving from people looking for tips on how to cook their turkey

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P10LV TIL: "that cats can alter the frequency of their purr and meow to match the cry of a human baby"
Z8LER TIL of the Halifax Explosion. ~2900 Tons of explosive materials unintentionally detonated in Canadian harbor during WWI.
xWKk TIL Ben Stein graduated valedictorian from Yale law school
wLop1 TIL of Giordano_Bruno, who was the first person outside of ancient Greece to postulate that the sun was just another star and that other stars likely had their own planets. In 1600 he was burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for heresy.
E1kBx TIL in 2015 a man in Iowa stole a bag of dog poop out of a truck bed when he realized he couldn’t steal the truck. Said bag was valued at a whopping $1.