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TIL a Minnesota man once sprayed toilet-papering teens who were on his property with a squirt gun full of fox urine

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m1Pgx TIL that birth order affects lifetime health. Firstborn children tend to have worse health at birth. Firstborns are more likely to receive care for depression in childhood and to develop diabetes in later life, while younger siblings are more likely to be hospitalized in for drug and alcohol abuse.
69P07 TIL Ernst Hanfstaengl, a confidant of Hitler, defected to the US after he fell out of favor. He had been ordered to parachute over Spain and be an agent for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, but he was convinced it was a plot on his life. Albert Speer claimed that it was an elaborate practical joke.
jV8v TIL that Soviet Russia had a central Department of Jokes that stand-ups would have to submit a list of jokes to every year and then once approved, they couldn’t deviate from that script for the entire year.
R7Xg8 TIL Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a passage that condemned slavery as one of the many evils foisted upon the colonies by the British crown.
QJBN6 Today I learned that Carly Simon sang the chorus to ‘Kissing with Confidence’ from 1983 by Will Powers.