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TIL Jerry Springer used to be the mayor of Cincinnati and resigned after being caught paying for sex with personal checks

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rV5M TIL that all modern cranes have a Fail limit: If the machine dispenses too many prizes in a given time period, it stops accepting coins and is out of order
d8xj7 TIL a rodent that was believed to have been extinct for 113 years suddenly showed up right in front of researchers, staying long enough for its picture to be taken, before it disappeared back into the Colombian forest, having never been seen again.
xV91g TIL that in 1951, a woman sitting in her Florida apartment caught on fire. When found the next day, all that was left was her backbone, her left foot and her skull, shrunk to the size of a cup. Nothing else in the apartment burned. Police were stumped. Some think it was spontaneous human combustion.
8avDZ TIL Clowns paint their faces onto eggs to copyright them so other clowns can't use the same face. There is a registry of egg faces in both Europe and in the United States.
17vr TIL that Tolkien himself considered Sam (Samwise Gamgee) the chief hero of “Lord of the Rings”.