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TIL that Jerry Springer was once mayor of Cincinnati, OH.

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rM8d TIL a Pakistani squash player (Jahangir Khan) won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
EJ70 TIL that the story of Thomas Edison electrocuting an elephant as part of the War of Currents is a myth. The elephant was killed as part of an unrelated Coney Island stunt, and Edison’s name is only associated because Edison-brand film was used to record the elephant’s death.
p8eDe TIL India has 3 foot long, multicolored squirrels.
78DKx TIL about Limbic Capitalism, how businesses exploit the brain's limbic system for profit. The limbic system is the part of the brain that controls pleasure, motivation, and long-term memory.
N7ny8 TIL that every single material you touch is due to repulsion between atoms and electrons and not due to being in literal contact between them