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Today I learned that a group of engineering students from Purdue University found that it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

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pG7b TIL George Carlin was the first host of SNL when it aired October 11th 1975.
gnK9 TIL there was hundreds of thousands of Irish slaves and it wasn’t just African slaves.
PYY5J TIL some viruses can get viruses
1alVV TIL that Kurt Vonnegut adopted his sister’s three sons after she died of cancer two days after her husband died in a train accident.
OG647 TIL about Don Black, a white supremacist, member of the American Nazi Party, Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of the neo-nazi, Holocaust denial, homophobic website Stormfront; he was arrested by the ATF in 1981 while attempting a naval invasion and armed overthrow of the government of Dominica