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TIL Tom Waits voiced a dog food commercial in 1981

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BLVW TIL Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”
VB7GG TIL That there was a Rudolph cartoon before there was even a song
dkRd TIL Wuppertal Germany is home to the world’s oldest operating monorail system, established in 1901. It is still in daily use and has only suffered one fatal accident in over 110 years of service.
emJ5 TIL in 1807 the British Navy set up the “Preventative Squadron”. A growing unit of ships tasked with chasing down slave ships off the coast of Africa and freeing the slaves.
grWoy TIL In the 20th century there was a female gang called the Forty Elephants.Due to conventional ideas of femininity that women were weaker than men,courts believed it impossible women were orchestrators of crime.Most women were assumed to have played supporting roles and received lesser sentences.