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TIL there has been a National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, every year since 1900, where a hobo is crowned King (and sometimes Queen).

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g5Yy TIL Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds” never actually caused a mass panic in 1938. This rumor was created by newspaper journalists in an attempt to discredit radio as a medium because they felt threatened by it.
NX7jJ TIL that one if the original ingredients for a Milkshake was Whiskey
wLLY8 TIL the first domesticated dog in North America lived in Idaho, USA around 10,400 BC
Lk4kP TIL of the German general Ferdinand Schörner, who at the end of World War II abandoned his army group to fly to Austria and personally surrender to the Americans, all to avoid capture by the Soviets. The Americans handed him to the Soviets.
XEZBE TIL that superglue was more or less invented by accident in 1942, in an attempt to develop plastic gun sights for the war effort.