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TIL the Bronx Zoo once caged an African man

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4kybw TIL that the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage
gr07 TIL that the Fresh Prince actually flew first class from Philly to Bel Air in a verse that got cut for TV. This whole time I thought he took the smelly cab the whole way.
ADGon TIL that as a result of the investigation into serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Russian police solved more than more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders, 140 aggravated assaults, and 245 molestations.
GPO5 TIL The concrete used to make the Hoover Dam is still curing to this day
4X9E6 TIL that Rolling Stone Magazine published a 6-page article of future stand-up comic Bert Kreischer while he was attending Florida State University. The article, naming him the top partyer at the nation’s number one party school, became the inspiration for National Lampoon’s Van Wilder.