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TIL that in 1992 Detroit News compared a theoretical performance of Godzilla unleashed upon 1972 Detroit in Sim City to the outcome of two decades of rule by mayor Coleman Young and came to a conclusion that Detroit would be better off with the monster

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8aMQ8 TIL President Gerald Ford's golden retriever, Liberty, used to receive fan mail at the White House, and would respond with "paw-tographed" photos.
ep4mJ TIL Joseph Kerwin was the first American physician to go to space and had the first chance to study space medicine. Ready on Skylab with a minor surgery kit and drugs, a dislocated finger was the most serious ailment any of the three astronauts experienced when he was there
8B6Z TIL that to demonstrate the m1917, John Browning fired the machine gun for 48 minutes straight (~21000 rounds). The US army shortly after adopted it as its standard machine gun..
8ak58 TIL that "fact-checking" site Snopes is 50% owned by an Ad Agency called Proper Media.
dxM9 TIL after Ken Jeong’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, she told him to pursue his dreams. He put a hold on his doctor career and began his comedian one.