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TIL it is possible to form an addiction to carrots.

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Wk7X9 TIL despite a 1998 GAO poll for the upcoming $1 coin warning that 65% of the public preferred the Statue of Liberty design and 27% preferred Sacagawea, the U.S. Mint decided to open a competition for the Sacagawea design. The coin was ultimately rejected by the public.
wPg1 TIL 35% of polled American workers said they would be willing to forego a significant pay raise in exchange for having their boss fired.
Brr7k TIL There is a video of GH Bush being rescued by a submarine
Bga9W TIL Dutch is the official language of government, business and education in the South American country of Suriname.
r89d TIL in the 90s the CIA tried to discredit the US Ambassador to Guatemala after they bugged her room and heard her talking lovingly to a woman named Murphy, and accused her of having a lesbian affair with the woman to Washington. There was no affair she was talking to her poodle named Murphy.