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TIL President Warren G. Harding held birthday parties for his dog Laddie Boy where he would invite neighborhood dogs and serve dog biscuit cakes to guests. A statue of Laddie Boy was made out of 19,134 pennies after the President’s death.

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0dmx1 TIL the UK engaged in reparations for slavery, but only for slave owning families. The British tax payers finally paid off the debt from this in 2015.
NRLe TIL Marty Robbins, singer of Big Iron, raced in NASCAR. In the 1972 Talladega 500, his laps were 15mph faster than his qualifying time. After the race, he turned down the Rookie of the Race award and admitted that he removed the carb restrictor “to see what it was like to run up front for once.”
l6YG TIL An eight year old boy in India is the worlds youngest known serial killer
nWnXd TIL that cardiovascular diseases cause an estimated 17.9 million deaths per year, most often (4 out of 5) through heart attack and stroke. One third of these deaths occur prematurely, or under the age of 70.
Wpw8 TIL A banana is a unit of radioactive exposure and that a truckload of bananas is able to set off a false alarm at U.S. ports sensing for smuggled radioactive material