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TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot

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owrR TIL: Einstein didn’t say that quote about insanity and repetition (or a bunch of other popular misattributions)
LKX0 TIL that there was once a breed called the Turnspit Dog, also known as the Kitchen Dog or Cooking Dog. They were bred to help in kitchens by turning a wheel that ensured that meat was cooked evenly. The breed is now extinct.
e0JMb TIL William Huntington Russell co-founder of the secretive Skull and Bones fatally ruptured a blood vessel protecting some birds from rocks thrown by some boys.
W7LD8 TIL that France and Spain "went to war" over a few stop signs in the 1970s and 1980s when France built two new roads that crossed a Spanish road and installed new stop signs which Spanish citizens continually removed over and over again for years. This became known as the "War of the Stop Signs".
epMxb TIL Terry from 'Wayne's World' is also Tobias Beecher from 'Oz.'