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TIL about Scabby the Rat. When unions are protesting in NYC outside any company, they put a huge blow up rat.

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X0De6 TIL of Max von Gerlach, the partial inspiration for the titular character in 'The Great Gatsby'. He was a German bootlegger who often lied about his past, frequently threw lavish parties, and referred to his neighbor F. Scott Fitzgerald as 'old sport' in multiple letters.
X0DLX TIL while the U.S. and France had similar per capita fatality rates in the 1990s, Americans today are three times as likely to die in a traffic crash
7rKQL TIL in WW2 the Nazis were thinking of ruining the British economy by dropping counterfeit bank notes, causing inflation.
pY9wO TIL that much of our understanding of early language development is derived from the case of an American girl (pseudonym Genie), a so-called feral child who was kept in nearly complete silence by her abusive father, developing no language before her release at age 13.
5kDQ TIL when Salvador Dali was recently exhumed to determine whether a fortune teller is his biological daughter, his moustache was still perfectly intact.