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TIL Elvis Presley’s Manager would sell “I Love Elvis” and “I Hate Elvis” badges to maximize revenue.

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6oll TIL “the world has more than 50,000 edible plants, yet just three commodity crops—rice, maize, and wheat—provide 60 percent of the plant-derived calories we eat”
X0wGr TIL: At least 1/3 of the US Cycling Team in 1984 LA Olympics were doped with a process called "blood doping". The American Cycling team won 9 medals.
XWnj TIL: Gerald Ford was subject to two assassination attempts, both by women. Only two presidential assassination attempts by women in US history
56gn TIL sometimes hospital workers pretend to perform CPR while letting someone die.
v1XV4 TIL that on April Fools’ Day, 1974, prankster Oliver Bickar fooled the town of Sitka, Alaska into thinking that the nearby Mount Edgecumbe was erupting by igniting hundreds of old tires inside the crater