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TIL Congress has set out a bill to stop the FCC from taking away our Internet. PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!

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xnMk TIL the McRib is being sold all year round at McDonald’s in Germany, it has been a permanent menu item since 1985.
kJnmB TIL in 1954, Betty White was criticized for having Arthur Duncan, a Black performer, on her show. When the show went national, affiliates from the South complained, and Betty gave Duncan more airtime. The show was soon canceled.
XEm48 TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a French swordwoman who: dressed in men's clothing, joined a convent to be with her female lover, got challenged to duels by three separate men for kissing a woman at a ball, and was a popular opera singer.
ZpvOY TIL that the anti-AIDS drug Ritonavir had to be taken off the market after scientists accidentally synthesized a second, medically useless form of the drug. The new form assimilated all the samples it touched, making them equally useless. A microscopic quantity of it was enough to halt production.
ovLK TIL, that in 2005, documentary film makers gave a homeless person $100,000 in cash, and followed him to see what he would do with the money. 6 months later, he was completely broke and back in the same place he was before the windfall.