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TIL Bob Barker had a feud with Betty White over an elephant

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ljjr TIL that Winston Churchill’s first thought when Pearl Harbour was attacked was “We have won the war”.
xVKXg TIL about the Lewis Chessmen, one of the few surviving chess sets from Medieval Times. They’re known for their comical expressions.
9547 TIL the Prime Minister of New Zealand went to see a doctor and a vet to confirm that he is a regular human being and not a shape shifting lizard from space
nWW47 TIL the convention of naming a dog "Fido" was popularized by Abraham Lincoln. "Fido" means "faithful" and it's use as a dog's name dates back to the ancient Romans.
0d5LL TIL that a fringe rationalist ‘death cult’ in the Bay Area—whose members were talented data scientists from NASA, Google, and Oxford—faked their leader’s drowning, lived in box trucks armed with samurai swords, and are now linked to as many as six deaths across multiple states.