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TIL that the food pyramid came from Sweden

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WAv8 TIL After President Grover Cleveland lost his reelection bid in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland held an umbrella over his successor’s head while Harrison delivered his inaugural address in a rainstorm.
w4aW [TIL] In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes
QyEa TIL that a gorilla learned sign language, can understand spoken English, and scored up to 95 on IQ tests.
wobEJ TIL that Stephen Stucker, best known for his role as the mad traffic controller in the 1980 movie Airplane, died only six years later to AIDs. He publicly revealed his condition in 1985, making him one of the first popular entertainers to be lost to recently discovered disease. He was 38.
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