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TIL Garfield was never supposed to be funny, Jim Davis made it solely to make money.

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7rp0Z TIL Chuck E. Cheese has a pretty depressing origin story: he grew up an orphan not knowing his own birthday hence why he celebrates everyone else’s birthday all the time
e0rnn TIL of a Great year. A period of time that lasts 25,772 years and measures the rotation of the earths axis.
JYn68 TIL that the Michelin stars restaurants receive are based off of whether you would travel a long distance to eat there, and that it started as a marketing ploy by Michelin tires in the 1900's
R5VZa TIL that when Freydís Eiríksdóttir, a 10th century Icelandic viking who was 8 months pregnant, was surrounded by hostile natives during a battle in America, she pulled a epic "Bring it on" move by picking up a dead man's sword and beat her naked breast with it, causing the natives to panic and flee.
DQome TIL that anthropologists have identified 7 'universal' moral rules found all around the world: help your family, help your group, return favours, be brave, defer to superiors, divide resources fairly, and respect others’ property.