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TIL Tucker Carlson's mother left him only $1 because she couldn't stand him

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BQ4e TIL that in California, they use prison labor to fight forest fires
0l7j TIL that the monkey noise used in many jungle movies is actually made by the kookaburra, an Australian bird
egLE TIL there exists a programming language so deliberately difficult to use, that the first program written in it was created two years after the language was released, and it was was written by another program; It is named for the Eighth Circle of Hell.
ADQ9B TIL Jack was a baboon purchased by a railway signalman who lost his legs in an accident. The Baboon began to operate the railway, and was eventually given a job and salary. In 9 years of employment, he never made a mistake.
VdVm TIL: The educated middle class are now considered the working poor