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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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Ldy9 TIL: In the 1900’s, the U.S. Navy became suspicious of homosexual activity in their sailors. They hired gay “decoys” to flirt with and find the homosexual seaman on board. However, the decoys became so popular that the Navy eventually just decided to stop..
mxLER TIL that the percussion cap was invented by a Scottish reverend whose guns were too slow for goose and wild game hunting.
8aNZZ TIL that John Pemberton created Coca-Cola as a way to wean himself off of morphine, which he became addicted to after taking a saber to the chest during the Battle of Columbus.
1vgX TIL The music used in the ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy advert is pirated
MeRmV TIL Edgar Allan Poe wrote Eureka, an obscure book, in 1848 in which he insisted that the universe began in "one instantaneous flash" - more than a century before astronomers hypothesized the Big Bang Theory.