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TIL Sigmund Freud wrote that there are only seven jokes or wit that have ever been written: Absurdity, allusion, comparison, exaggeration, faulty thinking, word-play and reproach

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1aLvP TIL a rat broke into an ATM machine and ate/destroyed over $17,500 (USD) of cash.
9Y9QG TIL, First Lady Barbara Bush Wrote an apology letter to Marge Simpson after criticizing the show.
ANZ9w TIL in 1856 paleontologist Amanz Gressly discovered a dinosaur named Gresslyosaurus. Years later he suffered a mental break and was institutionalized. When a friend visited him, he found Gressly agonized & hallucinating that he had transformed into the Gresslyosaurus. Gressly died shortly afterwards
B7r TIL Ugland House in the Cayman Islands has over 18,000 companies registered in the five story building, yet the law firm that owns it (Maples and Calder) claims it’s not for tax evasion purposes.
kJ4AE TIL In the 1980s pharmaceutical giant Bayer discovered their blood clotting drug was tainted with the HIV virus. Instead of scrapping the drug and taking a loss they sold it to unknowinging countries in Asia and South America leading to thousands becoming infected.