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TIL Three's Company theme song was written by the same man who wrote the Sesame Street theme.

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yVYjl TIL Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King met Hitler in 1937, thinking he could establish a lasting peace in Europe with Hitler. After the meeting he compared Hitler to Joan of Arc.
vPe0L TIL of a fox named Rambo in Australia who managed to avoid 10,400 traps, 3,500 poison baits, 73 stakeouts, and 55 days of scent-tracking dogs in an attempt to have him removed from a wildlife conservation area.
YRkP TIL American soldiers in WWI who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with model 1897s and were stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair. This would deflect the grenades from falling into the American trenches and therefore protect American soldiers
JYXav TIL of the Battle of Hainan Island (Chinese Civil War). The Communists conducted a successful landing operation using 2000 traditional wooden junks. This led the KMT Navy to underestimate them and tried to capture them, only for the junks to reveal artillery pieces, forcing a KMT Destroyer to flee.
rLkW TIL that much graffiti from the walls of the ancient city of Pompeii have been unearthed and translated, showing that human behavior has remained unchanged in the past 2000 or so years.