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TIL Garfield (the comic strip) was never supposed to be funny. It was crafted to fit a marketing niche.

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xVAnk TIL the California Institute of Abnormalarts has an embalmed corpse of a 100-year-old dead French clown, preserved under glass in full makeup. “They’re pre-1925 human remains, so we don’t need a permit,”
4N5R TIL that up to 25% of the population may have trouble distinguishing between right and left, even into adulthood.
1ay5d TIL a 2011 study found that 47% adults in Detroit were functionally illiterate
Vr9Q TIL that in the mid-1980’s the Soviet KGB launched “Operation INFEKTION,” aimed at making people believe that the United States invented HIV.
Y7JQ7 TIL that the Thirty Year War may have began when Czech nobles threw two Habsburg regents and their secretary out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap.