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TIL that Earth Day was conceived by a Wisconsin Senator named Gaylord Nelson after witnessing a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California

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lD5B TIL Bobby Bonilla, a former baseball player, agreed to be bought out and defer his $5.9 million contract in 2000, so that the New York Mets would pay him $1.19 million every year from 2011 to 2035, totalling $29.8 million for a year he didn’t even play.
L1Zm TIL They have to used recycled footage for Ted Mosby’s future kids in How I Met Your Mother because the show has run on for 9 years, and the kids are now IRL 26 (daughter) and 23 (son)
vPwBj TIL that penguins propose with pebbles! Male penguins find the smoothest rock they can and offer it to their mate as a way to start building a family together.
Mekb0 TIL a poultry company in Australia uses a live chicken to run its Twitter account
Z8R7p TIL The middle of nowhere in the US is located in Glasgow, Montana