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TIL that Congress unanimously congratulated the St Louis Cardinals on their 2006 World Series victory

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06ZL TIL in 1975 Australia had a government shutdown. In the end, all the members of Parliament were fired and then elections were held to restart from scratch. They haven’t had another shutdown since….
oBYmr TIL that a heavily-promoted 1979 American sitcom about black congressman did not air due to opposition from the Black Congressional Caucus, who feared that airing "Mr. Dugan" would be "disastrous, showing a (black) congressman who was a silly, incompetent man ruled by his staff"
5VLWQ TIL following backlash to the Morgenthau plan for Germany, President Roosevelt claimed "I have not approved anything like that. I am sure I have not. ... I have no recollection of this at all". Upon being read back what he had signed, Roosevelt said he had "no idea how he could have initialed this"
78xop TIL a woman in Brazil was killed by a falling cow that crashed through her roof while she was sleeping. The cow survived. She didn’t.
4Xxww TIL that hobos had their own secret code of symbols they would use to Mark locations that were friendly, or dangerous for their kind