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TIL Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (sons of 26th US President Teddy Roosevelt), became the first North Americans to shoot a panda, on an expedition funded by the (Chicago) Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s.

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E1gN7 TIL in 2007 the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force attempted the advertise their upcoming movie by planting Lite Brite devices of one of the shows characters all around Boston. The entire city or Boston went on lockdown thinking the devices were bombs in an attempted terror attack
Xrek TIL more men want children than women. “8 out of 10 men say they’ve always wanted to be fathers, compared to 7 out of 10 women who say they’ve always wanted to be mothers.”
AQRg TIL James Jameson, heir to Jameson whiskey, explored Africa in 1888, where he bought an 11-year-old girl and gave her to Congolese cannibals to sketch how they ate her
yOlw TIL that Tom Waits always refused to give rights for his songs in ads and sucessfully sued many companies who hired impersonators to sing similar songs in order to bypass his consent.
6EwOw TIL of the University of Sydney Pirates. In 1957, a group of 10 students dressed as pirates and boarded the U.S.S. Bennington. They then snuck to the bridge where they proclaimed, over the PA system of the ship, that "The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!"