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TIL July 5 is the busiest day for animal shelters because so many pets run away in fear

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6RDQ TIL When Canadian Prime Minster Lester B. Pearson Came To Philadelphia To Speak Against The Vietnam War, Before He Could Finish His Speech President Lyndon B. Johnson summoned him to Camp David, Maryland where he grabbed him and said “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”
XER96 TIL one of the primary economic principles of Nazi Germany was the mass privatization of public industries.
9v87 TIL that a monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
JJpm TIL during initial showings of a scene in the 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” where a character fires a gun straight at the camera, it is said audience members ducked and put their fingers in their ears, despite the film being silent; some are even said to have fired back at the screen.
nekRb TIL that the word radar is actually an acronym for "radio detection and ranging."