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TIL that Bill Niman, founder of Niman Ranch and pioneer of humane animal farming, stopped eating Niman Ranch products after his farm was bought out by a corporation that dropped his humane treatment and sustainability standards in order to make a profit.

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abKJ TIL there is an RC car that returns Javelins to the Olympic athletes. Here’s the video from London 2012.
MeYv7 TIL the bass line in "Rapper's Delight" is not a direct sample of Chic's "Good Times"- rather, the producer paid a 17-year old bassist to play the same line for 15 minutes straight, with no mistakes.
9YxJD TIL about Captain Midnight, a Florida man who hijacked HBO’s satellite to protest their high prices.
1aQED TIL, Johnny Cash was brutally attacked by an ostrich he kept in a wildlife park, it broke 2 ribs and slashed his stomach open. As a result of the pain pills he was prescribed, he fell back into drug addiction years after overcoming them.
YpZdd TIL that the largest cave in the world is Hang Soon Doong and is located in Vietnam and it could contain an entire city with 40-story skyscrapers and in contains a large underground forest that was able to grow and developed thanks to skylights created by the collapse of parts of its vault.