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TIL of a girl named Laura Buxton who released a balloon with her name on it that landed in the yard of another girl also named Laura Buxton. They also have the same color hair, are in the same grade, have black three-year-old female Labrador dogs and a rabbit and identical guinea pigs each.

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a8Ov9 TIL this Looney Toons character is named Michigan Jackson Frog and was partially inspired by a horned toad named Ol’ Rip that allegedly survived for 31 years in a Texas Courthouse Time Capsule and was sent to meet President Coolidge
OBR7 TIL in 1968, US prisoners captured by North Korea repeatedly gave their propaganda photographers ‘the finger’ in photos, claiming it was a 'Hawaiian good-luck gesture’
jNd0Q TIL that with over 13 sextillion made as of 2018, the Metal-Oxide-Silicon Transistor is the most widely manufactured device of all time.
yMV8 TIL In 1994 there was a rash of UFO sightings and confirmation of abnormal activity by National Weather Service Radar in West Michigan.
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