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TIL on April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office. It was not a joke.

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7yEr TIL when President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 and was taken into surgery, Reagan removed his oxygen mask to joke, “I hope you are all Republicans.”
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dD9Dr TIL Wendy's can't come to Europe because there's 1 two-table restaurant in The Netherlands that's already called Wendy's. Brilliant story
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