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TIL squirrels were originally placed in US cities as a way to reconnect city dwellers with nature

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9wQYD TIL Magnavox released a television with a built-in video game, Tennis, in 1972.
nepNb TIL That President Harry Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark as the first female Treasurer in 1949. Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman, and seven of the past eleven Treasurers have also been Hispanic.
EwgW TIL President Richard Nixon ordered a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea while drunk, but Kissinger told the Joint Chiefs to ignore the order until Nixon sobered up.
j8Zv TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
N70OM TIL Auguste Deter, the first woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, could not recite her own name. She instead would just repeat "I have lost myself" ("Ich hab mich verloren")