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TIL: President (James) Garfield’s great-great-grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic The Gathering

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Ym9P TIL that during the famous Chernobyl Disaster only 31 people actually died at the event. Most of the deaths happened later as a result of the radiation.
1a7k4 TIL A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks such as mixing ink and fetching type. Many notable men served as printer's devils in their youth,including Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin,Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and John Kellogg
XE596 TIL Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, became the face of the Disney animators' strike in 1941. He would scream at Walt through a bullhorn when he rolled into work and the two nearly got into a fistfight in the parking lot
oRBmE TIL in 1996 a woman going through heroin withdrawal crushed up a black widow spider and injected it
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