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TIL Charlie Brown repeats the line “I got a rock” in the 1966 special “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. This caused an overwhelming viewer response leading to bags and boxes of candy being sent to creator Charles Schulz “just for Charlie Brown.”

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ZbPG TIL Werner Herzog was supposed to board a flight to Peru to scout locations for his film “Aguirre”, but he cancelled last minute. The plane crashed into the Amazon, killing 91 out of 92 people on board. Years later, he dedicated a documentary to the lone survivor who made it out of the jungle alive.
LQ5V0 TIL a baby blue whale can drink as much as 150 gallons of milk per day during its first year.
wLGMJ TIL the Appalachian Trail was originally designed in 1921 by Benton Mackaye as a way to transform what he saw as the rapid decay of American life, and was intended to be a transformative redevelopment project to help allay the dysfunctions of modern society.
kJwOm TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.
M7GN7 TIL that a piece of a giant squid was recovered by the French ship Alecton in 1861, leading English naturalist Henry Lee and others to come to the conclusion that giant squids were responsible for the legend of the Kraken.