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TIL that jellyfish should be kept in cylindrical tanks because they can get stuck in right angled corners

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V8aG TIL Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US President to oppose the Spoils System of giving federal jobs to political supporters, wanting instead to pick them by merit according to an examination.
oBEPr TIL Adolf Hitler was in a relationship with his half-niece, who later ended up killing herself because Hitler forbade her to marry the person she was interested in.
Bg0xe TIL that D'Arcy Corrigan, the actor who played the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" in A Christmas Carol (1938), fittingly died on Christmas Day, 1945.
mxewO TIL that the US accidentally created an artificial radiation belt around the earth in 1962, by detonating an hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere. It resulted in the destruction or damaging of 30% of the satellites in lower earth orbit, and knocked out electric devices 1 300 km away from the blast
R5vjl TIL Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) and Keith Moon both died in the same bedroom, both at the age of 32.