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TIL The Majority of American currency is contaminated with traces of cocaine.

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R5xx6 TIL one of Michael Phelps' kid's name is Boomer
DQ9ED TIL on the May 9, 1969, episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Rogers asked Officer Clemmons, a black policeman played by François Clemmons, if he'd like to cool his feet with Rogers in a child's pool. Clemmons accepted after Rogers offered to share his towel too. Most pools were still segregated.
WKvB TIL: Banana flavored candy tastes that way because that’s how bananas tasted until the 1960s, when a fungus wiped out that strain of bananas. Today another fungus threatens the strain of bananas we eat.
nPLP TIL Weird Al Yankovic is not legally required to get permission to parody other artists songs, but he does so anyway.
957M TIL A Harvard Professor was able to slow light down so much to the point that it “stopped”.