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TIL that in the Simpsons opening theme when maggie is scanned, the register flashes “$847.63” which was the average price to support a baby monthly in the US at the time of the shows debut in 1989.

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yQVbl Let’s ask Betsy Dresser, the senior vice president of research at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, who has raised several litters of small African wildcat clones. “Oh yes, the clones are very much wild animals with wild instincts,” she says. “They bite and scratch. You can’t handle them without gloves and nets.”
MVMK TIL that on May 30, 1883, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede, which killed at least twelve people. To prove the bridge was safe, P. T. Barnum led a parade of 21 elephants over it.
Ab7d TIL in 2009, Harry Connick Jr. was a guest on an Australian talent show where a blackface skit received roaring approval from the crowd. Shocked, he gave the act a 0 and later said had he known about the skit in advance, he wouldn’t have been on the show.
e0L8g TIL every current European monarch is descended from John William Friso, Dutch Prince of Orange from 1702 to 1711
m1lLP TIL at the prompting of a prison chaplain, Joseph Paul Jernigan of Texas accepted to donate his body for scientific research or medical use. His cadaver was then used by the Visible Human Project, which then cut his body in 1871 1-millimeter cross-sections, which were then digitalized