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TIL That Presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat ever to be associated with the donkey symbol. His opponents during the election of 1828 tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist beliefs. Jackson was entertained by the notion and ended up using it on his campaign posters.

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ner5P TIL that in 1474 a rooster was put on trial because it laid an egg and the villagers thought that it made a pact with devil. He was found guilty and burned alive and it was later found out that the rooster was a hen that just looked like a rooster.
6EOAQ TIL the deepest hole humans have dug is known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole in the far northwest of Russia. It is 40,230ft deep (12.2km). The locals say that can hear the screams of souls tortured in hell. It took the Soviets 20 years before the end of The Cold War scrapped the project.
ZDbv TIL that a kid’s fantasy movie called “Warriors of Virtue” was so bad, it actually made a critic vomit during the initial screening.
rjkw TIL The most sophisticated bomb ever encountered by the FBI destroyed Harvey’s Wagon Wheel casino in Lake Tahoe in 1980. The device included 28 toggle switches , a float switch, tilt sensor, sensors and spring switches casing screws and joints, and a few surprises.
v1Lax TIL that the written form of the Finnish language was largely created by one man, who was born at an unknown date somewhere around 1510. The invention of the printing press and the first sails to the Americas predate first texts ever written in Finnish.