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TIL after Taft's election as president, there was an attempt to replace the Teddy bear with Billy the Possum as the new popular plush toy. All because William Taft was very fond of opossum meat.

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N7b68 TIL Many psychology experts believe the darkness in fairy tales actually helps children learn to cope with terrible things in the real world. As an example the Beauty and the Beast involves the exposure to ugly danger, the monster, and the triumph over evil, and then finding of the good in the evil!
KYlLR TIL people who were born blind use their visual cortex to solve math problems
Bgv7d TIL that the film "Seven Years in Tibet" was shot primarily in Argentina
5YRPQ TIL the pressing SHIFT+F3 after selecting the words can make you change between lowercase, UPPERCASE, and Capitalize the selected words. I feel so glad and stupid for not knowing this in my entire life.
BgBbL TIL that the remains of the Vietnam War’s representative at America’s Tomb of the Unknown were finally identified 14 years after he was first entombed.