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TIL: There were once Africans on display in the Bronx Zoo

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oRv5W TIL Steve Jobs bought multiple houses across the country to increase his chances of receiving organ donation.
X54r TIL in 1979 when New York City made it illegal to carry open containers of alcohol in public, the law was pitched to only target the anti-social homeless. A city councilman supporting the law: “We do not recklessly expect the police to give a summons to a Con Ed worker having a beer with his lunch”.
a80PL TIL McDonald's congratulated NASA Astronaut and former McDonald’s restaurant crew employee, Commander Leroy Chiao after his successful 200 day mission by presenting him with Big Mac and fries in Star City
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699AJ TIL: In 1990 Jennifer Aniston played a version of Jennifer Grey's Jeannie Bueller for a Ferris Bueller TV series that was so bad it was cancelled after the first season