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TIL The Pledge of Allegiance Was Just A Marketing Ploy

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loK1a TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper was so friendly with his local police that they initially thought his phone call confessing to killing his mother was a weird prank. They also didn't know he'd killed his own grandparents in his teens because that record was expunged.
ealJ TIL The man responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe was imprissoned by the Spanish Inquisition because “only Devil could give a man the power to exhale smoke from his mouth.”
X15X TIL that Amazon removed text-to-speech features for the vision impaired from later Kindle models, for fear that it would cut into profits from audiobooks
VVAp TIL that during the Falklands War, when the HMS Sheffield was sunk by Argentinian missiles, the crew members who made it into the water sang the song “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian while they waited for rescue.
1a8o4 TIL Mosquitoes caused the death of almost half of all people who have ever lived