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TIL a square with rounded corners is called a squircle
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TIL Emily the cow escaped from a slaughterhouse minutes before her turn at the abattoir, wandered for 40 days eluding capture, went on to live for 8 more years before getting a memorial on her grave
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TIL Patton's solution to Hawaiian lava flows in the 40s-50s was to bomb them
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TIL: January 29, 1845: “The Raven” published in the New York Evening Mirror. The poem was enormously popular and soon made Poe a household name, but it did not bring Poe any financial success. He received $9 for the poem.
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TIL that in 2018, Domino's Pizza began their 'Paving for Pizza' campaign; $5000 was given to 20 public bodies to fund road repairs to ensure that pizzas were not spoiled during delivery. Each pothole would be sprayed with the Domino's logo and the message 'Oh yes we did'
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TIL Researchers working with Kanzi (a bonobo who communicates using a keypad with symbols) claim his favorite movies are ones that blur the boundaries between humans and apes such as Planet of the Apes and Quest for Fire.