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TIL Henry Ford pursued the gasoline-powered automobile after receiving encouragement from his employer and boyhood idol, Thomas Edison.

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gleA TIL that according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
wxO1 TIL that when you eat pineapple, it’s actually eating you back - pineapple’s Bromelain enzyme digests proteins, which is the reason for that tingly feeling on your tongue when you eat it.
GvRj TIL the Grasshopper mouse is a carnivorous rodent that dines on worms, scorpions, snakes, and even other mice. It also “stalks its prey in the manner of a cat, sneaking up quietly, and defends its territory by ‘howling’ like a small wolf.”
LQlVZ TIL: "Jumbo" was a male African bush elephant who was an attraction for PT Barnum. He was hit by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario and died. He was not named Jumbo because of his size; we got the word "jumbo" because of his name.
ExZ7 TIL that in Paris in 1926 the Ukrainian Head of State was assassinated with 5 shots from a revolver in broad daylight. The policeman who witnessed the crime walked over to the gunman, saying quietly “Is that enough?”.