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TIL the White House press secretary has more DUI charges than White House press conferences

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yokl TIL gloves were introduced into boxing not for safety reasons but to increase hits to the head and dramatic knockouts.
9Z1D TIL Harry Pointer was taking humorous pictures of cats and adding text (ie: the lol cat) in the 1870s
eOK6 TIL Sid Meier didn’t include multiplayer in the original Civilization game because “if you had friends, you wouldn’t need to play computer games.”
p86BO TIL that the military version of TL;DR is BLUF (bottom line up front)
P1jNg TIL The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large, man-eating lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, responsible for the deaths of many construction workers in 1898. The lions' skins were used as floor rugs for 25 years, before being sold to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.