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TIL that Steve Irwin's papa declined a state funeral for his child since in words of his son, he was an "regular bloke".

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jNZxn TIL that Ulysses S. Grant provided the defeated and starving Confederate Army with food rations after their surrender in April, 1865. Because of this, for the rest of his life, Robert E. Lee "would not tolerate an unkind word about Grant in his presence."
WkxBL TIL that in 2013 an app was created to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest.
wolyM TIL Thomas Edison created the first ever film studio, "The black maria", which could rotate so that it could always catch the best lighting. There, they shot "The kiss" (1898) which contained the first on-screen kiss, which caused a demand for the first ever film industry censorship.
d81xr TIL Kevin Leach, the Oklahoma Sooners' offensive coach, left a fake offensive script for the opposing Texas Longhorns coaching staff to find. As a result, the underdog Sooners took at 17-0 lead after only 10 minutes
ADeMB TIL about Operation Mindf**k: a group of 1960s pranksters who wanted to show how ridiculous conspiracy theories were by placing stories in the media attributing all calamities and conspiracies in the world to an 18th century Bavarian society called the Illuminati.