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TIL that the the first vacuum cleaner was horse-drawn.

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MeMvb TIL of the "Jim Twins", a pair of identical twins separated and adopted to different families at birth. Both were named James, married and divorced women named Linda, remarried women named Betty, and each had a dog named Toy. They both named their sons James Allan. They reunited at age 39.
6vZm TIL that when setting up the Jeopardy! challenge involving the Watson supercomputer, IBM repeatedly expressed concerns that clue writers would exploit cognitive deficiencies in order to turn the show into a sort of Turing test. A neutral third party had to be brought in to select the questions.
oRo5R TIL a woman secretly kept her lover hidden in her attic for over a decade; he emerged only to kill her husband
D1jvV TIL of Katya the Bear who was a brown bear native to Kazakhstan who was imprisoned in 2004 after being found guilty of mauling two people. Katya was held in an adult prison. The bear was released from imprisonment and allowed to congregate with other bears after serving a fifteen-year sentence.
XQlD TIL: Almost all major American Grocery chains continue to profit from the use of Slavery in Thailand’s peeled shrimp industry.