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TIL when Los Angeles was first founded back on September 4, 1781, it only had 44 residents (known as Los Pobladores) and covered just four square miles

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W7Q8d TIL Alfred Hitchcock refused to meet Steven Spielberg, who had looked up to him. According to Bruce Dern, this was because Hitchcock had agreed to be the voice of the Jaws ride at Universal Studios, and looking at Spielberg made him feel "like a whore."
QNNYd TIL a plant hopper (Issus coleoptratus) is the first species found to have functional biological gears
9v5r TIL that in 2005 capuchin monkeys were taught how to use money. The monkeys used the money to buy sex from other monkeys.
VMkQk TIL In 2001 a man slipped on ice and drowned in his cat's water bowl
9Ya86 TIL that Alexender Graham Bell tried to eliminate American sign language and deaf schools in the U.S because he was afraid of a deaf race emerging from it.