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TIL Milhouse got his name because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”

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NnXb TIL that a popular stuffed polar bear, located at Science Museum of Minnesota, was killed after being beaten to death by vandals at a local zoo.
1Wm7 TIL America’s main beers (Budweiser, Coors, etc) are light and relatively flavorless due to WWII making them rely on cheaper ingredients
7reer TIL Kintsugiis the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
KV1Q TIL that Charles Hatfield, a self-proclaimed “moisture accelerator”, accepted a job from the city of San Diego in 1915 to end a long drought for $10,000 but was forced to deny payment when people died due to severe floods shortly after he completed the job.
x6VyD TIL in 2010 a Seattle-area county council candidate named Ubax Gardheere once threatened to blow up a school bus and mocked the children who fled the vehicle as "cowards", according to court documents.