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TIL of the Hitler Teapot - a teapot that sold out at JC Penny stores once people noticed it resembled Hitler

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9aKp TIL baby hippos will use a crocodile’s spine as a chew toy and won’t be attacked!
g8KD TIL that some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF
4XLv6 TIL shortly after George H. W. Bush vomited and fainted at a meeting with the Japanese Prime minister in 1992, a man named James Edward Smith, called CNN posing as the president's physician claiming Bush had died. CNN was within seconds of publishing the story, but stopped the anchor mid sentence.
QNJXa TIL that hockey players Claude and Brendan Lemieux are the only father and son to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players.
ANkwo TIL of Malthusians. They believe a finite earth can’t sustain mankind’s indefinite expansion unless checked by law, war, famine, or natural disaster