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TIL President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs, named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.

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R74v6 TIL when Henry Ford II took control of Ford Motor Co., the first thing he did was fire his grandfather's brutal, union-busting head of security by sending his own second-in-command, a former FBI agent, to deliver the news. Both men drew handguns on each other.
bk07 TIL Babies as young as 9 months know what makes a friend,new research suggests. A study conducted in January in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, shows that babies who are too young to talk still have a set of abstract expectations about the social world.
VMeaZ TIL Sacha Baron Cohen carried a bulletproof clipboard when he filmed one segment of Who is America, out of fear that the participants would shoot him.
e01eb TIL that the murdered body of a man was found 40 years later after an unusual for the area fig tree grew out of a seed in his stomach.
a8dWN TIL that the largest urban area by population outside of Asia is São Paulo, Brazil