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TIL That most white cats with blue eyes are deaf
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TIL that Wilford Brimley isn't just a spokesman for diabetes. He is also a respected actor whose career spans for than half a century.
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TIL in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
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TIL When twitter switched from 140 to 280 characters, political discourse became more polite, less informal, more analytical, but less substantive.
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TIL That John Garand, who designed the M-1 rifle that bears his name, never received any royalties for the design and that an attempt to award him $100 000 by an act of Congress failed despite almost six million rifles being produced.
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TIL of a tiger who terrorized rural villages in Asia and is estimated to have killed 436 people