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TIL The inventor of waterbeds tried to use Jello

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XEKJj TIL That the Father of General Douglas MacArthur, Arthur MacArthur Jr. was also military commander of the Philippines in 1900. Similarly he would also go on to be relieved of duty by a (future) president, Howard Taft in 1901.
6Q5m TIL we’re now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15th century would be in their entire lifetime.
0dMLM TIL that the classic “devils horns” ears that Doberman dogs are known for is actually a result of a practice called “cropping”, where the flappy part of an animals ear is surgically removed.
R7Ok4 TIL that when Kanye was 20, at his first ever record meeting with Columbia records and producer Michael Mauldin, he told the execs that he’d be bigger than Michael Jackson and Jermaine Dupri, not knowing Mauldin was Dupri’s father. Kanye’s offer was nullified and he was asked to leave the offices.
W7B6o TIL At the 1994 World Cup, Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar inadvertently scored a goal on his own team during their match against the US. Five days later, Escobar was shot and murdered as retaliation by the Medellin Cartel.