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TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.

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wLNrJ TIL Lionel Tate is the youngest American ever sentenced to life without the possibility of parole at 13. It was overturned and he was given 1 yr house arrest and 10 yrs probation. At 18 he committed an armed robbery, he's now serving 30 yrs for violating parole and 10 yrs for armed robbery.
kOjY1 TIL Costco makes 75% of its Money through it's Subscription Service and only has 11% Gross Margins compared to Walmart's 24%.
neG4G TIL CIA did collect Soviet jokes.
0wOPy Til that there are over 43 quintillion possible combinations for a rubix cube, and yet you are never more than 20 turns away from solving it
P11JO TIL Tarzan was not raised by gorillas, but rather a fictional manlike ape species called Mangani with their own language. According to one book, they beat on earthen drums during ritualistic dances.