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TIL that Gracie Allen (comedienne and wife of George Burns) ran for President of the USA in 1940 on the Surprise Party ticket

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dwE7 TIL that Great White Sharks are not actually apex predators as they are preyed upon by orcas
9YMDX TIL that in 1508 a French town tried to convict the local rats of destroying their crops, a lawyer successfully defended them by first arguing that court summons must be given to each individual rat and then arguing that it was too dangerous for them to come to the trial due to the cats in the town
0wn65 TIL the lyricist for the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon (Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!) won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
YklZ TIL LimeWire was sued for more money than the music industry has ever made. $75 Trillion.
0675 TIL that Douglas Adams came up with the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field holding a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe.