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TIL that an alligator terrorizing Chicago locals was captured and named Chance the Snapper by the local Herpetological society

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xVREg TIL it "snows" metal on Venus
G0A5 TIL that some knife makers attach a coin to each knife they sell, to circumvent the superstition that giving someone a knife as a gift severs the relationship: the receiver can ‘pay’ for the knife by returning the coin to the person who gave the knife to them, turning the gift into a 'purchase’.
kJvme TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport
OoK87 TIL: Nearly 26,000 gallons of milk is served each year in just twelve days at the MN State Fair “All You Can Drink Milk Stand”
R7o18 TIL that Dr. Seuss was childless, but invented a whole clan of fictional offspring with bizarre talents that he could bring up whenever friends annoyed him by boasting about their own kids' accomplishments. He even got a group of neighborhood kids into posing as them for a fake Christmas card photo