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

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n95b TIL that hockey player Rich Peverley died on the bench from a cardiac episode, got revived by defibrillator, then asked to be put back in the game.
9wkLQ TIL: Saudi Declares Online Satire A Punishable Offense
oNBE TIL In 1674, Manhattan was traded from the Dutch to the English for Run Island, an island in Indonesia which is now nearly uninhabited.
wo5OY TIL a Polish farmer named Franciszek Honiok is considered the first victim of World War II after being murdered on the evening of 31 August 1939 as part of a Nazi plot to provide a justification for the invasion of Poland.
OR17 TIL That people can detect nano-scale wrinkles as small as 13 nanometres while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface. This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars.