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TIL that Carly Simon is the daughter of the Simon in Simon & Schuster

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b6yRE TIL The route traveled by the SS Badger car ferry across Lake Michigan is officially designated as the continuance route of U.S. 10 between Wisconsin and Michigan.
PYQoL TIL when California two-spot octopuses (a specific species) were submerged in an ecstasy solution, they got calmer and more sociable with other octopuses they previously ignored. While this showed they react similarly to humans on MDMA, this was a pilot experiment that needs further research.
VoJk TIL France is the second largest hip hop market in the world
W7gQ9 TIL President Calvin Coolidge had a pet racoon named Rebecca who was originally gifted to him to eat for Thanksgiving dinner
wMo1 TIL that in 1989, the US military blared AC/DC music at General Manuel Noriega’s compound in Panama for two continuous days. The dictator surrendered.