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TIL: The US tried to hide nuclear missiles in Greenland without Danish knowledge in Project Iceworm.

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x6yRb TIL that US President Theodore Roosevelt pets included: a small bear, a lizard, 5 guinea pigs, a pig, a badger, a blue macaw, a hen, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, a barn owl, a rabbit; and a pony
GYZ44 TIL that historically, black dyes were the hardest to make. Brilliant colours or heavily-decorated clothes were legally restricted to the nobility, so successful merchants would show off their wealth by wearing all-black clothes
LkwQp TIL that one of the main reasons you aren't supposed to eat after the dentist is because the lack of pain from numbness can cause you to bite parts of your mouth off, like lips or tongue.
od4r TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s father was named Homer, Mother was Marge, and had sisters named Maggie and Lisa. Bonus: His mother’s maiden name was Wiggum.
ZlWo TIL that it takes 8,000 pounds of force to pull apart two interlocked phone books. You could literally hang two full sized cars from them.