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TIL about Bagdad, Arizona, which is one of the last remaining company towns in the US. Freeport-McMoRan owns all of the housing and commercial buildings in Bagdad

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nV9o TIL in WW2 the Polish had enlisted a bear on their side who enjoyed drinking, wrestling, cigarettes and even slept in tents. He would carry heavy ammunition crates to soldiers on the battle field and never once dropped a shell.
Ooypa TIL TIL Steve McQueen was demoted to private seven times by the Marines; he then saved the lives of other Marines by pulling them from a sinking tank, after which he was assigned to guard the presidential yacht of US President Harry Truman
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BrVZy TIL that it took E. B. White 17 takes to read the death scene of Charlotte, as he recorded the audio version of his book Charlotte's Web. He is said to have walked outside, come back in, and start crying again when he got to that moment, "a grown man crying over the death of an imaginary insect."
1aAaV TIL Nintendo pushed the term "videogame console" so people would stop calling competing products "Nintendos" and they wouldn't risk losing the valuable trademark.