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TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills

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rRjoo TIL about the Crittenden Compromise, a proposal to enshrine slavery to the U. S. Constitution and make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. Opposed by Abraham Lincoln and rejected by the House and Senate, it failed to avert the Civil War.
nLed TIL Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premiere of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children. Left with a day’s worth of food and wine, by mid-afternoon there were 11 naked dwarfs running around screaming obscenities at the crowd.
9mb7 TIL that above 70 Manhattan Project scientists signed a petition(Szilard Petition) to President Truman to beg that the bomb should not be used on a civilian population in Japan.
69yKw TIL the male phascogale fucks itself to death
8eAgL TIL that scientists thought Rhizocophala, a group of parasitic barnacles, were hermaphroditic, as many other barnacles. But then they discovered the "testes" were actually males living inside the females.