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TIL the director and animator of Ed, Edd, and Eddie was shot 8 times by police officers while unarmed. It was caught on video.

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8eaDV TIL President Dwight Eisenhower regularly had a supply of Coors beer flown to Washington DC by the US Air Force, at a time when Coors could not be legally sold east of the Mississippi River, and President Gerald Ford once smuggled some back to DC from Colorado in his luggage.
EGp7 TIL Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.
9Ywmr TIL of the huia bird. It went extinct in 1907 and its call was never recorded, but it exists today because an elderly Maori man imitated in 1949 from memories of his childhood.
RM8Q TIL that there was a large significant White Slave population in the Colonies that numbered at least 300,000 Irish prior to the 19th century.
XENZk TIL Researchers at the University of Montreal were attempting a study on the behaviour of men who watch pornography compared to those who don’t but were unable to find any men who hadn’t consumed porn