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TIL that every member of The Beatles cited "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" as their favorite song off of The White Album

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vPe0L TIL of a fox named Rambo in Australia who managed to avoid 10,400 traps, 3,500 poison baits, 73 stakeouts, and 55 days of scent-tracking dogs in an attempt to have him removed from a wildlife conservation area.
mjpO TIL that Bill Shepherd, first US Navy SEAL that became a NASA Astronaut and first commander of the ISS, was asked what he does best in his astronaut candidate interview. He answered: “Kill people with a knife”
0dZ7M TIL In 1944, Helen Martini was hired as the Bronx Zoo's first female keeper after successfully raising 3 tiger cubs. She was famous for treating animals in her Bronx apartment-sometimes despite the complaints of neighbors-including gorillas, marmosets, baby deer, antelope, squirrels, and skunks.
7pEb TIL that the doctor that claimed a link between vaccines and autism made up data
VBjaG TIL about the ‘Doppler effect’ which explains why a siren's pitch changes as it passes by