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TIL of The British pet massacre, where an estimated 750,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were euthanized due to a government pamphlet suggesting the public do so, at the beginning of WW2.

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kJV45 TIL: Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl and You, voice acted in two Mario games for the Nintendo 64 (Mario Golf and Mario Tennis)
b9LME TIL of the Thorpe Affair, where in 1975 the head of the British Liberal Party Jeremy Thorpe hired a hitman to kill his homosexual lover from the 1960’s causing one of the biggest scandals in British politics.
YLW7 TIL: James Brown used to fine his band members for things like wearing unshined shoes, missing a dance step or showing up late to a gig
wLxyE TIL Only in the U.S. and New Zealand is direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs legal.
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