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TIL In 2010, an animal rights advocacy group called for Punxsutawney Phil to be replaced with an animatronic groundhog, claiming the tradition stresses the animal. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club rejected the idea, stating that Phil is well cared for and lives better than the average child.

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7r87p TIL that during the Iran-Contra hearings, Senator Daniel Inouye remarked that "[There exists] a shadowy Government with...the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."
gMD5W TIL diaeresis mark (the two little dots above a vowel) indicates that the second vowel should be pronounced independently of the first. Some examples are naïve, and the given names Chloë and Zoë
dDyAE TIL Academy Award winning actor Jack Palance was Ukranian. His birth name was Volodymyr Ivanovich Palahniuk.
8dnb TIL The Oregon Trail game was created by 3 teachers on a teletype, which became the biggest educational game in history, yet none of the three creators saw a dime in its millions of dollars in profits.
4XMN TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud