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TIL In 1979 a rabbit, hissing and baring its teeth, swam up to Jimmy Carter’s boat while he was fishing. He shooed it away with a paddle, but the incident damaged his reputation

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6EOLw TIL about the Eggnog Riot. On 24th December 1826 more than a third of U.S. Military Academy cadets in West Point, New York, rioted after consuming eggnog with whiskey during a Christmas party.
nLJo TIL That Detective John St. John (Jigsaw John), the man who caught William Bonin, The Freeway Killer, got a confession out of him by writing a fake letter from one of the victims’ mothers begging him to tell her what he did with her son.
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RMd1 TIl, Ray Kurzweil has predicted that computer brain implants will be available by year 2029. Since 1990, 89 of his 108 predictions have come true.
dDRrj TIL Up Until the 1950s, There Was a Species of Seal Living in the Caribbean From Florida to Mexico