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TIL Stephen Colbert started a Super Pac, then gave it to John Stewart while running for president in 2008

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g94L TIL Male chickens over 1 year old are roosters, those under are known as cockerels. Females over a year old are hens while those under are pullets.
bgn4 TIL 25 years ago on this day a US guided missile cruiser attacked a civillian Iranian Airliner killing all 290 passengers including 66 children. US government never apologised for this incident.
gr077 TIL researchers caused the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome epidemic by telling parents to put babies to sleep on their stomach
wo76 TIL many American vodkas really are the same. They’re produced by a handful of commodity giants and sold to brands for dilution, filtering, and packaging. One distillery fills 3 separate brand partner bottles with the same potato vodka.
Wond TIL that the 15 largest commercial ships in the world create as much pollution in a year as every car on the planet