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TIL In 1926 Poland sent the United States a birthday card. With 5 million signatures.

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yVrG8 TIL during the 18th century, you could pay your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.
QJBM TIL that Karen Carpenter died on the same day that her divorce was supposed to be finalized. At her funeral her husband took off his wedding ring and threw it into her casket.
0jKy TIL that the phrase “Great minds think alike” is only half of it. The full phrase is “Great minds think alike, but fools rarely differ.”
ZeZp TIL: In 2013, forty year old Heath Campbell strolled into a New Jersey courthouse wearing full Nazi regalia and asked for visitation rights to his toddler claiming “Prisoners get to see their children, murderers get to see their children. What’s so horrible about being a Nazi?”.
lo41A TIL “90 Day Fiance's” Stephanie Matto made over $90,000 Selling Farts in a Jar