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Today I learned the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus also co-created the Garbage Pail Kids.

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p854O TIL about YomHaShoah, an Israeli national day of remembrance for the Holocaust. One of the most notable events of the day is the blaring of air raid sirens throughout the country for two minutes, during which all public activity ceases.
Q68E TIL that in an 8-hour day, the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.
jNJZM TIL Ferdinand Foch (Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWI) said of the Treaty of Versailles : "This is not a peace treaty. This is an armistice for twenty years." World War II started 20 years and 64 days later.
awYKb TIL that thousands of years ago, Madagascar was home to lemurs the size of gorillas
xVv65 TIL in China, the one-child policy has wreaked havoc. By encouraging the birth of boys rather than girls, an imbalance of the sexes has emerged. China will now have a surplus of 30 to 40 million men under the age of 19. That’s the equivalent of the entire population of young men in the United States