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TIL Milhouse first appeared in a Butterfingers commercial before actually appearing on "The Simpsons"

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ABPx TIL that one of the first films ever recorded on Thomas Edison’s Kinetograph was a shot of two cats wearing boxing gloves and fighting each other in a boxing ring. It is titled “Prof. Welton’s Boxing Cats.” Very likely the first cat video ever recorded.
4X09X TIL of a French territory in South America called French Guiana, who’s got the 17th best GDP mainly due to its primary income being their rocket-launching base in the capital, Kourou.
rN45W TIL there's a hypothesis the moon Phobos may cycle between being a moon and a ring system around Mars. It reaches the Roche limit and breaks up into rings then slowly reforms, getting smaller each time. We were just born in a time when it is a moon not a ring system.
kJvme TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport
x6B97 TIL Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank in 1840. It was reported that this wasn't his first time doing this to prevent a vote.