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TIL that Bill Murray once decided to commit suicide and drown in lake Michigan, but ultimately changed his mind on the way to the lake after seeing a painting from french painter Jules Breton

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xXyg TIL that in the 1700s, “macaroni” was a slang term for a fashionable man who dressed in an outlandish and androgynous fashion. Hence the mocking verse, “…stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.”
loXRa TIL that cereal box characters are drawn looking down so when they are on the supermarket shelf they make eye contact with children which makes the child want the product.
jvaa TIL Mary Anning, the first female paleontologist, is the girl referenced in the rhyme “she sells sea shells by the sea shore” after she discovered the first ichthyosaur at age 12 while collecting shells on the beach.
5YPXR TIL: That in 2014, the US Army sent 14,000 conscription letters to men born in the 1800s because of a Y2K-like bug.
M5vK TIL that the series finale of MAS*H had an estimated 125 million viewers; the most for any TV show. It was also reported that 77% of the toilets in NYC were flushed in the 3 minutes following the end of the episode, the highest water usage at one given time in the city’s history.