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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife.

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wLelJ TIL that Rob Riggle (the actor that plays Captain Jack in The Office 'Booze Cruise') is actually a Retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel. He retired in 2013 after 23 years of service.
bGO4 TIL that the part of a drinking fountain that sticks up behind the spout is there to keep you from wrapping your lips around the spout.
0wQDA TIL the 2nd deadliest day for law enforcement in the U.S. was a 1917 bomb attack that killed nine Milwaukee police officers. The original target was a local church but a boy discovered the suspicious package and brought it to the police department, where it exploded. (The deadliest day was 9/11.)
Wkjod TIL: Only 5 countries in the world have never been under any sort of European control.
OGeA6 TIL that in 1993 Todd Rundgren released the first interactive album, No World Order, for the Philips CD-i (under the name TR-i). The disc allowed listeners to listen to six different versions of the album from guest producers and make their own mix.