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TIL that pumpkins mostly grow during the night

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vKar TIL in 1877, Jimmy, a monkey, was charged with assault after he bit the finger of Mary Shea, in New York. On hearing the case the judge said he could not legally commit a monkey. Jimmy then respectfully removed his velvet hat, climbed atop the judge’s desk and attempted to shake his hand.
kOKnE TIL The Mayans had paper-based books (codices) that Spanish missionaries burned, causing "much affliction" among the surviving Maya. Only three codices survive today.
dnGZ TIL that The Australian Coat of Arms has the kangaroo and the emu because these animals can’t move backwards.
P1b5L TIL: the pallbearers at President Grant’s funeral were: Confederate generals Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, Admiral David Dixon Porter, Senator John A. Logan and his close friends: Sheridan and Sherman
YkOG TIL Playboy refused to print Richard Thompson’s list of best songs of the millennium because he took the task literally and chose songs dating back to 1068