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TIL that the creator of Legos made a policy of no military sets because he didn’t want war to seem like child’s play.

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j6GJn TIL of the prominent political Frelinghuysen family of New Jersey. They helped established Rutgers University, attended the continental congress, ran for VP in 1844, and had a family member in congress as recently as 2019.
j65LR TIL Memorial Day Was First Celebrated In Boalsburg PA In 1864, Two Years Before Waterloo First Celebrated Memorial's Day
5VDRQ TIL that Tommy Wiseau made another movie last year, that nobody's talked about, and I'm dying to know if it has cult status potential
A8vB TIL Arctos is the Greek word for bear, meaning the Grizzly Bear’s scientific name (Ursus arctos) literally translates as “Bear Bear”, the Arctic Ocean is the “Bear Ocean”, and Antarctica is “The Land with no Bears”.
rN1wy TIL that the first American Artist to cover a Beatles song was Del Shannon with his 1963 cover of "From Me to You". Del Shannon's cover also became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29th, 1963