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TIL Florida is coming up on nine years without a hurricane making direct landfall

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4r15 TIL John Adams, who would go on to become the second President, defended in court the soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, earning acquittals for six of the eight.
W1BA TIL that Pope Clement VIII like coffee so much he baptized it so Christians could drink it without going to hell.
4kOKX TIL George Lucas’s dog, an Alaskan malamute named Indiana, was often taken by the Lucases on car drives and called their ‘furry copilot’. He was an inspiration for Chewbacca and the source of Indiana Jones’ name.
Yp4Nv TIL that in 2015, police in Australia were called to a flat after neighbours were woken by the sounds of screaming, yelling, and destruction of furniture. It turned out to be a man trying to kill a spider.
dDegr TIL in 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's family was gifted a raccoon for Thanksgiving. They raised it as a pet in the White House, complete with a collar inscribed "White House Raccoon." After their tenure, the raccoon was moved to live in a zoo.