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TIL A man threw a mouse into a pile of burning leaves and it ran into his house while still ablaze and burnt his house down.

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N7JB1 TIL: The first-ever solar-powered satellite, Vanguard 1, is "the oldest human-made object still in orbit" (plus some of its launch rocket). Launched in 1958, it stopped talking in 1964 but continues orbiting. The three sats older than it (Sputniks 1 & 2, Explorer 1) are no longer in orbit.
p84G8 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called "Buffalo Gals" which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line "Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people's homes and chews on their carpets."
5V5V8 TIL In 1985 Microsoft and ASCII built a 18 meter tall, 30 meter long dinosaur in Tokyo to celebrate the sale of 1 million MSX computers. Bill Gates did not know about this promotion (that cost at least 750,000 dollars) and it led to Microsoft and ASCII parting ways.
VB6aG TIL that Lenore Zann, the voice actress for Rogue in the '90s X-Men cartoon and X-Men '97, served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada from 2019 to 2021.
4Xleb TIL that around 80% of money in the economy is just a bunch of zeros and ones (i.e digital)