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TIL of the Capitol Crawl, when over 100 handicapped people shed their wheelchairs & crutches and crawled up the stairs of Washington’s Capitol building, inconveniencing some senators and forcing them to adopt the ADA.

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KwK6 TIL The most prolific female serial killer in history, Elizabeth Bathory, sexually abused, tortured, and killed over 600 young women.
GNnG TIL that if you feed your dog pineapple, it won’t want to eat its poop anymore
5YOpQ TIL about the “Magic 8”. Before 1491, corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao weren’t found anywhere in the world outside of the Americas.
xno TIL: A mysterious man placed dozens of tiles on roads all over the Northeastern US and even South America over a period of 20 years. They contain the boggling message: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOViE’ 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.”
AyXo TIL the oldest living Hollywood actor is Norman Lloyd. Despite turning 103 in November, he is still acting and appears in a new show premiering in 2018.