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TIL jimmy kimmel launched a campaign to end womens suffrage. Apparently a large number of women were willing to sign away their right to vote

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6JZW TIL Garfield was never supposed to be funny, Jim Davis made it solely to make money.
7AO7 TIL that in the Middle Ages, rhyming nicknames were becoming common and that is the reason why Bill is short for William(Will), and Dick is short for Richard(Rick)
pYwaQ TIL Soulja Boy created all the instrumentals on his debut album (Souljaboytellem.com) using the demo version of Fruity Loops Studio.
67BJ TIL that a year after its initial publication in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt (then-president of the U.S.), loved the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows” so much that he wrote the author saying that he had “read it, reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends”.
LrOr TIL The soviet military trained dogs strapped with explosives to conduct kamikaze-style attacks on enemy tanks. the concept backfired horribly, with scared dogs often running back to their trainers…killing them