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TIL that despite receiving near-universal acclaim, the film Iron Giant bombed at box office, failing to make back even half of its budget

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E1pxp TIL when in 2013 5-year-old Alanah Poullard asked the US President for an excuse note during a Wounded Warriors and families tour of the White House on a school day, the President ended up writing that excuse note.
0YrR TIL of Death Bear, a person in a seven-foot-tall bear costume who could be summoned via text message to visit New York homes to collect and remove painful reminders of breakups
R7DG8 TIL that a German football club was banned from playing for 12 months in 1934 for failing to give the Nazi salute at the start of a game.
GYP6G TIL Yajnavalkya (8th century BCE) is considered one of the earliest philosophers in recorded history and he likely lived in the Videha region of ancient India. Yajnavalkya had metaphysical questions about the nature of existence, consciousness and impermanence
a8EyM TIL the Canadian Association of Journalists hands out an award annually for "Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy" for hiding information from the public and this years winner is National Defence