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TIL than Scrooge McDuck is worth 44 Billion and is placed on the Forbes 15 fiction list. And that such a list exists.

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m1GlR TIL In the 1950’s, when General Electric opened Appliance Park in Louisville, KY, they persuaded lawmakers to bend the time zone boundary around the city so the factory would observe the same time as GE’s headquarters in Fairfield, CT.
KNy4 TIL that in 1946, a man claiming to be a detective gave a pedestrian a camera and asked her to take a picture of a suspect. The “detective” turned out to be a gangster, the “suspect” turned out to be his ex-wife, and the “camera” turned out to be a concealed shotgun firing via the shutter button.
EWjp TIL it’s Bugs Bunny’s own fault that Elmer Fudd wants to shoot him with a gun. Elmer was a mild-mannered wildlife photographer shooting with a camera, until Bugs Bunny’s incessant pranks drove him suicidally insane.
LQD8p TIL; Andrew J Beard, a black man who was born into slavery went on the invent the "Jenny Coupler" a device that automatically locked rail cars together and eliminated the dangerous need for a person to stand between them, saving untold lives.
oRMBL TIL the jazz standard "Pennsylvania 6-5000," popularized by Glenn Miller, was inspired by the Pennsylvania Hotel's telephone number from where Miller led His Orchestra in 1940.