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TIL that many invertebrates like crustaceans feel pain.
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TIL Michael Jordan had a “love of the game” clause in his contract, allowing him to play basketball against anyone, anytime and anywhere.
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TIL that the 1952 presidential election was the first American political race that employed 30-second TV ads, and the Eisenhower campaign’s embrace of this technology vs Stevenson’s traditional campaign style was a major factor in Eisenhower’s landslide victory.
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TIL the American Public Power Association has a ‘Squirrel Index’ data tracker to track squirrel attacks on electrical power systems. They found that the two peak periods of highest squirrel activity are May-June and October-November.
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TIL that Tim Burton made a tribute short stop-motion film for my distant ancestor Vincent Price, who also narrated it.
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TIL: During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Naval Command prioritized destroying Battleships over Carriers. The operational commander, Minoru Genda, defied those orders and assigned more planes per Carrier than planes per Battleship, in spite of carriers being lightly armored and easier to sink