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TIL that in the 1910s/20s a wolf spent 9 years massacring livestock in the town of Custer, South Dakota. He evaded hunters, traps, and poison. He kept two coyotes as servants/lookouts. And when he was finally killed the government issued a press release.

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5Y4Wp TIL that in September 1985 John Denver, Dee Snider, and Frank Zappa testified before a US Senate committee in opposition to warning labels on records notifying consumers of explicit lyrical content involving sex and violence.
69GNQ TIL there is a Leg Lengthening Surgery. First your legs are broken and screws inserted. Then your body forms new bone, ligament and arteries to fill the space.
8eynP TIL that Robert Frost was to read "Dedication" at the inauguration of JFK, a poem he had composed for the occasion, but due to the brightness of the sunlight he was unable to see the text, so he recited another poem of his "The Gift Outright" by memory instead.
P1VVZ TIL in 2020 a man in Como, Italy stepped outside to cool off after fighting with his wife and ended up walking 450km. His walk eventually ended a week later when he was stopped in Fano and fined €400 for breaking the curfew. His wife, who had reported him missing, travelled to Fano to collect him.
d87p9 TIL that in 1972, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack shot a feature-length documentary on Aretha Franklin but forgot to use clapperboards, which made it impossible to sync audio and video and left all of the footage unusable. The film was finally salvaged and released 46 years later.