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TIL there's a rare mutated golden Australian possum named Pikachu

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woVrP TIL Ronald Reagan started eating Jelly Belly's to quit smoking and kept it up so much that during his terms as President he would have more than 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month
v1P9L TIL that Aaron Burr was still Vice President of the United States when he shot Alexander Hamilton and continued to perform his duties despite being wanted for murder in New Jersey and New York.
8ekw4 TIL that newborns can sleep up to 16-17 hours a day, but in short bursts.
x60bk TIL that, in 1989, the short film Visions of Ecstasy became the only movie to have been refused certification by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) on the grounds of blasphemy
o5rL TIL - In an effort to solve the extremely high corruption rate problem, Georgia (the country) once fired it’s ENTIRE police force. It turned out that the police WERE the problem and the move actually worked, as the country’s corruption almost vanished in the following three months with no police.