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TIL Tom and Jerry committed suicide

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mxmjE TIL Brussels sprouts taste less bitter than they did 20 years ago, as a result of selective breeding
1a887 TIL a 2017 University of Iowa experiment concluded that pigeons can understand concepts of space and time, but not exactly how they do it. The birds “judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.”
KKk9 TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender
R76l4 TIL that The Oregon Trail (1971) is actually older than Pong (1972). It was originally developed for use by a school teacher in Minnesota as a history lesson.
jQ0M TIL that New York City has started replacing the swords stolen from public statues decades ago as crime has gone down and the city has become a “safer place.”