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TIL A machine in the Moscow subway dispenses a free ticket if you do 30 squats

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YpO6P TIL that, in 1965, a radio personality in Vancouver committed to living on the top of the massive Bowmac car dealership sign until all the cars were sold. He had been poisoning his wife with arsenic for months, and the nine day gap in the poisoning would later get him convicted of her murder.
nWKbB TIL Shakespeare likely died on his birthday, April 23.
78867 TIL Dr Seuss's original Lorax drawings are found in Austin, at the presidential library of Lyndon B Johnson. Johnson and his wife were environmentalists and he called Seuss personally to thank him for donating the original artwork to the Johnson archive
XZmE TIL that the United States has surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia and now produces more oil and natural gas than any other country in the world
D7MP TIL The word “Bupkis,” common slang for “nothing,” comes from the Yiddish phrase meaning “having about as much worth as goat turds.”