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TIL JH Kellog, inventor of granola, was estranged from his brother WK Kellogg. JH wrote a letter seeking to reopen the relationship. His secretary decided her employer had demeaned himself in it and refused to send it. The younger Kellogg did not see it until after his brother's death

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m1wWM TIL some birds have tiny magnetic particles in their beaks.
VBpkQ TIL multiple times in the 1980s a man named John Suter competed in the Iditarod dogsledding race with a team of poodles.
16Mr4 TIL in the 1950s, future stuntman Evel Knievel drove earth movers in a Montana copper mine. He was fired for making the vehicle do a wheelie and accidentally crashing it into a power line, cutting power to the city.
D1YVV TIL the military under Richard Nixon was ordered not to react to any orders from the president due to his depression.
DQoxP TIL: Contrary to popular belief, Jesse Owens didn’t humiliate the Germans in the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics. In fact Germany won by far the most gold and total medals, almost twice as the second place (the USA)