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TIL that Satoshi Tajiri the creator and father of Pokemon is a high-functioning autistic

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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.
yMYw TIL that the most expensive fossil ever sold was Sue the T Rex, a 40-foot 80% complete specimen discovered in South Dakota in 1990. She was sold at auction to Chicago’s Field Museum for $7,600,000.00.
OoawX TIL Melbourne gave some of its trees email addresses so residents could report problems. Instead, the trees received love letters.
a80RM TIL the American commanders of the invasion of Tarawa in 1943 were Major General Smith, Major General Smith and Major General Smith
oR5j7 TIL an office building in midtown New York sold for $8.5M last year, 97.5% less than what it last sold for: $332 million in 2006.