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TIL that the inventor of the polygraph, John Larson, hated it so much he called it “a Frankenstein’s monster, which I have spent over 40 years in combating.”

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loWrK TIL that Disney refused a grieving father’s request to put a Spider-Man sticker on the tombstone of his son that died from a rare genetic disorder
oBL4Y TIL that there’s a city in New Mexico named ‘Truth or Consequences’, the city chose to rename itself after a radio show contest in 1950.
jjya TIL the Scottish parliament and the Tourist Board of Scotland in 2007 spent £125,000 coming up with the slogan “Welcome to Scotland”
OG5W4 TIL that when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House he kept a flock of sheep on the White House lawn and one of them killed a small child.
4kkWo TIL that a pilot can open a jetliner's cockpit window mid-flight.