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TIL that the “voice” of Gizmo from the movie Gremlins, was done by Howie Mandel

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JYAAl TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
xVlPw TIL in the 1960s the United States designed a practical plasma weapon for a space battleship
XED0E TIL A Wyoming woman maintains and regularly uses a 122 year old sourdough starter to make pancakes. The starter is older than the state of Wyoming itself.
Oln6 TIL Seth MacFarlane was an animator and writer for Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Dexter’s Laboratory, and I Am Weasel before starting Family Guy.
nWp6B TIL Dr Pepper is the #2 soda in America behind Coca Cola