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TIL Rep. Tom Moore Jr, concerned about legislators’ lack of attention in passing bills, once got the Texas Legislature to inadvertently pass a bill honoring the Boston Strangler for his work in population control

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awMrA TIL that before electrical and mechanical alarm clocks were common, working people used to hire "knockers-up" to wake them by banging sticks or shooting dried peas at their windows.
6Bn8 TIL Firms illegally dumped nuclear waste off Somalia coast, brought to the coast by a Tsunami, causing radiation sickness to the local villagers in 2005
jNdPE TIL Trump's grandfather who immigrated to the US, Frederick Trump, was also the Bavarian equivalent of a draft dodger
nWJeo TIL Frank Sinatra passed away during the night of Seinfeld's final episode, and his ambulance was able to quickly reach the hospital due to the reduced traffic resulting from the widespread viewership.
R59W7 TIL there is a polar bear jail in northern Manitoba, Canada where polar bears are kept isolated until they can be relocated for the safety of the residents of the town of Churchill.