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TIL in 1981 Bosco Ramos won the mayoral election in Sunol, California. As it happened, Bosco was a dog. The furry politician remained in the office until its death in 1994.

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kOAlB TIL: With a practice dating back to the 16th century, there are still some banks in Italy which accept wheels of Parmesan as collateral for a secured loan with favourable terms
OnAY TIL Kodak employed blind people to develop colour photos and manufacture film because those jobs needed to be done in pure darkness.
Medga TIL that the only people who banned Christmas in America, were Christians.
GAlpJ TIL Alexander the Great was sieging the island of Tire until he decided to turn it into a Peninsula
4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.