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TIL that between the 16th and 19th century temperatures went down by less than 1°C and this somehow caused an increase in zoophilia

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wR9Y TIL that Bob Ross had an intense feud with his art teacher, William Alexander, who grew so frustrated with Bob Ross that he said: ‘He betrayed me…I invented 'wet on wet.’ I trained him and he is copying me – what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better.“
Breld TIL Feud between brothers led to founding of Adidas and Puma
BrjGb TIL that rats live pretty much everywhere in the world (in habitable land) except in Alberta, Canada.
4kEkb TIL About the Edgewood Arsenal human experiment project conducted by the US Army chemical corps from 1948-1975 during which 7,000 soldiers were exposed to various nerve agents to test their results.
mxEXP TIL Charlie Chaplin was the subject of an FBI investigation due to alleged communist sympathies during the height of McCarthyism. He later said "As for politics, I am an anarchist. I hate government and rules - and fetters ... People must be free."