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TIL Demetri Martin wrote a full length poem that is also a palindrome.

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ZAbR TIL Cats bring you dead animals not as a gift, rather because they think you don’t know how to hunt and want to teach you.
XEKdj TIL that Disney once offered televangelist Pat Robertson $42 million to let them remove "The 700 Club" from Freeform's lineup, but he said no. Freeform began as the satellite channel of Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network; he sold it in the '90s, but every owner since has had to air the show.
x6Epb TIL that no US President has ever used the Emergency Alert System despite events such as the 9/11 attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Cuban missile crisis. It is believed that the audio-only EAS messages would actually hinder the ability of the media to present live news coverage.
GA1lG TIL On March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein carried out a chemical attack on the Kurdish population of Halabja, Iraq. 5000 People Were Killed by a Lethal Combination of Mustard Gas, Sarin, and a VX Nerve Agent.
d0g7 TIL Joe Rogan was the Massachusetts full contact Tae Kwon Do champion for four consecutive years. By the age of 19, Rogan won the US Open Tae Kwon Do Championship and as lightweight champion went on to beat both the middle and heavyweight title-holders to obtain the Grand Championship.