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TIL Clifford the Big Red Dog is the mascot of the Scholastic publishing company

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ep4g4 TIL Bank of America was intially called Bank of Italy
7v9x TIL The doctor who performed the “study” purported to show the soul weighs 21 grams removed all data that did not support his hypothesis. In fact, only 1 cadaver supposedly lost weight.
X0X9k TIL that Unicode uses elephants as a baseline comparison for cultural frequency when considering whether to add a new emoji
6Ewbl TIL that in 2019 there was a sixth Terminator movie (after Terminator: Genysis) which so few people saw that that it was even less successful than Terminator: Genysis. The film grossed only 13% of what was needed to break even and was considered a box office bomb due to lukewarm critical reception.
5VQRD TIL six percent of humans go out of their way to hit animals on the road and 89% of the people who did swerve to kill drove SUVs