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TIL that Cat Litter was invented by Ed Lowe in 1947

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W7eo4 Today I learned, the city of Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons into the air, causing car accidents, the postponement of a Coast Guard search and creating a environmental nightmare on Lake Erie
VMwj8 TIL Barron Hilton (of Hilton Hotels) was so embarrassed by his granddaughter Paris being caught driving while intoxicated, he disinherited the whole damned family. The patriarch instead pledged to donate 97% of his estate to charity upon his death.
yQaJV TIL that a single cow can produce up to 65 pounds of manure per day
MeJ8W TIL of Bulgaria’s role during World War II as a part of the Axis. Did not participate in the war vs the Soviet Union, reluctant to send Jews to the Holocaust, had no resistance to the incoming Red Army to “liberate” them in Sept. 1944, and ended the war with slightly more land!
QmPM TIL that, despite box office records being broken every year, only one film in the 21st century so far has managed to sell more than 100 million tickets domestically - Star Wars: The Force Awakens.