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TIL that the creators/directors/writers for Parks and Rec, Bob’s Burgers, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Silicon Valley, Modern Family, The Good Place, American Dad, and Rick and Morty all got their big breaks on King of the Hill

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kR4m TIL Some Chinese police use geese instead of police dogs due to better vision and aggressiveness
9Yo5M TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew, Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was elected to be the first president of France in 1841. He staged a coup d'etat at the end of his term in 1851 and ruled as emperor Napoleon III till his death since the constitution didn't let him seek reelection.
W7jx4 TIL H.Kramer, author of the most popular work on witchcraft in early modern Europe and largely responsible for the witch hunting craze, was initialy condemned by theologians in his native Germany. They deemed his practices unethical and illegal, and his work inconsistent with catholic views.
OomYY TIL that Helen Keller learned how to talk through the work of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught her by placing one of Anne’s fingers over Sullivan’s throat, one over her mouth, and one on her nose so that she could feel the vibrations of all the different letters and replicate them herself
l7p8K TIL the famous study about heartless husbands, which found men were highly likely to divorce their sick wives after serious diagnoses, was subsequently responsibly retracted by authors because of a statistical error. In the corrected model, the difference between divorce rates was minimal.