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TIL of Tommy Tucker, a squirrel that wore womens clothes and performed tricks to sell war bonds in WW2.

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QJ0Ep TIL that WiFi does not stand for Wireless Fidelity - it stands for nothing. It's a word coined by a marketing firm that means nothing.
ygE8 TIL A Greek merchant vessel call the “Captayannis” capsized in the middle of the River Clyde in Scotland in 1974, and has remained there ever since as nobody claims responsibility for it. It now homes marine life and birds.
8aZ7V TIL: Color television sales overtook black and white television sales in 1972
6EJkX TIL a study found that Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian rank among the highest for fake followers on social media, nearly 50%.
loOr5 TIL people were skeptical of reinforced concrete until the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, where the few concrete buildings survived the quake and fire remarkably. Now we produce about 7.5 billion cubic meters of concrete worldwide every year.