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TIL Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

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oB1WE TIL because of a 1954 report on illiteracy, Houghton Mifflin's edu director gave Theodor Geisel with a list of 348 words he thought 1st graders should learn, asking Geisel to cut it down to 250 and to use those words to write a book. Geisel returned using 236 of them in his book, The Cat in the Hat.
XEaoE TIL that last year in Denver there was a migration event for air mattresses. Resident Robb Manes was in his pool when two mattresses flew in. When he went outside there were 50 to 100 migrating across a field.
PYVbZ TIL the first president of the United States is technically John Hanson under the Articles of Confederation in 1781
699LW TIL there is an unclaimed Pokemon Go gym on the North Korean side of the Korean DMZ, a border zone filled with snipers, land mines, and armed guards.
ne40r TIL Buckminster Fuller would sleep 2 hrs a day by taking 30 mins naps every 6 hrs, and was able to fall asleep in 30 seconds.