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TIL Dexter, the U.S. Navy’s very last working horse, was stationed in Philadelphia to haul trash, and upon his passing in 1968, he was buried with full military honors.

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mapp TIL that the Postmaster general is the second highest paid government official after the President
Rrkw TIL there was a lull in ‘cussing’ in Rap lyrics in the mid 2000’s and we still haven’t recovered to the level of the mid 1990’s
QJmxE TIL the US made Schoolhouse Rock-like cartoons called The Metric Marvels in 1978 to prepare the country to switch to the metric system
8a8GK TIL that the 1982 video game "Ms. Pac-Man" was created as a response to the fact that a majority of Pac-Man players were female.
1awaP Today I learned that in 2015, American hip hop duo ‘Run The Jewels’ released 'Meow The Jewels’: a crowdfunded version of their 2014 album, where they replaced all the instrumentals with samples of meowing cats - and donated the $60k+ funds to charity.