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TIL The Addams Family originally began as a New Yorker cartoon

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xE8o TIL there is a giant straw goat in Sweden that has been burned down 28 times since 1966
BrjGb TIL that rats live pretty much everywhere in the world (in habitable land) except in Alberta, Canada.
Brvje TIL that the original version of Les Paul guitar nicknamed "the Log" was crafted in an Epiphone factory. Les Paul then approached Gibson but got rejected calling the prototype, "broomstick with a pickup. " It would take a decade before Gibson finally accepts the idea.
PeNJ TIL the NCAA once said “post-season bowls had no place in college football “because they serve no sound educational ends, and such promotions merely trade upon intercollegiate football for commercial purposes.”
wYZW TIL North Korea and China signed a mutual defense agreement which says “the two nations guarantee to adopt immediately all necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation”