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TIL President Kennedy kept two hamsters--Debbie and Billie--in the White House as pets. The two escaped often, one time being found under Kennedy's bed. Debbie later ate Billie and died of indigestion.

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e0eW5 TIL more than 1 in 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence had made false confessions; researchers say they occur as a result of police using force, threat, exhaustion, hunger, lies, and intimidation during interrogations.
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DQ5yg TIL that Hitler's beard, Eva Braun, made two suicide attempts in the years before she finally collected her Darwin Award in the Führerbunker.
nWyNY TIL that the last known cuneiform inscription, an astronomical text, was written in 75 AD
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