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TIL greyhound changed their slogan from “there’s a reason youve never heard of bus rage” after a brutal murder occured on one of their lines

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LXY9 TIL that the T.V. show Futurama is the current most critically acclaimed animated series
woXkW TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, went on a joyride from Washington D.C. and back with Amelia Earhart.
R7WN4 TIL from my Bolivian co-worker that Potosi (the largest city in the new world 1545) had more than 40,000 tons of silver shipped out of the town, making the Spanish Empire one of the richest the world had ever seen. He said it Bolivians claim it was enough silver to build an transatlantic bridge.
ERRX TIL the song “I Want a Monster to Be My Friend” from Sesame Street was removed from the show after a mother complained about the lines “If I make friends with a friendly monster, I’ll let him bounce me on his knee. I’ll let him do whatever he wants to especially if he’s bigger than me.”
rR6Nx TIL The first camera phone was sold 20 years ago. The Kyocera VP-210 was released in 1999. The phone had an 0.11MP camera and could take up to 20 pictures before its onboard storage was full.