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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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wGr6 TIL that “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too” is the correct form of the proverb, because its order is what illustrates the impossibility. The Unabomber got the order correct in both his manifesto & private writing & this was 1 of the linguistic anachronisms that helped the FBI identify him
jera TIL That at the start of the 20th century, Paris, France had a zoo full of confined humans from their colonies: Madagascar, Indochine, Sudan, Congo, Tunisia and Morocco. Over a million people visited the zoo.
yZXJ TIL the same voice actor portrayed Chief Quimby in Inspector Gadget, Mr. Wilson and Ruff in Dennis the Menace, Egon Spengler, Destro, Pepe Le Pew in Space Jam, The Brain, Salem in Sabrina, the Narrator in Johnny Bravo, Master Fung in Xiaolin Showdown, Morbo + Kif in Futurama, and the King in Frozen.
XEQoj TIL Medical grade is nothing more than a marketing trick, which just means Inert
8aRob TIL that King of the Hill, despite having consistently great ratings even in its later seasons, was cancelled in order to make a spot for the Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show