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TIL The creator of the labradoodle regrets creating the breed.

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k8Bd TIL Thomas Edison was a jealous asshole. He was so jealous of George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla that he would publicly electrocute animals to prove how bad Alternating Current was. Edison jumped at the chance to publicly electrocute Topsy the elephant at The Luna Park Zoo.
9w7GM TIL of the 31 US Presidents who have held military rank, 30 of them were officers. The only enlistedman among them was President Buchanan, who was a private in the War of 1812
geK9 TIL in the 1980’s, a one letter typo cost the Yellow Pages $10 million when they misprinted a travel agency’s advertisement for ‘exotic vacations" as “erotic vacations”
e944 TIL that two men vanished months apart after being pulled over by the same Police Officer
6POZ TIL The San Francisco Giants eradicated their Seagull problem with a Red Tailed Hawk named “Bruce Lee.”