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TIL There is a colony of Japanese Snow Monkeys that are living in the wilds of South Texas

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JEQV TIL of Ali Maow Maalin. In 1978, he became the last person on earth to contract naturally occurring Smallpox. He spent his life working to eradicate Polio, and unfortunately died from Malaria in 2013.
pYP4A TIL in 2005, Michael Jackson planned to build a 50ft robot of himself that would "wander in the [Nevada] desert as an advertisement" for a proposed Las Vegas residency. Funding problems shelved both the robot and residency, and a Nov 2009 meeting to revisit the idea was cancelled once Jackson died
1lnX TIL: No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.
woEo7 TIL that Iraq DID have WMDs, and Bush tried to cover it up.
gM0x8 TIL the mafia used to control the artichoke industry in NYC, ultimately leading to Mayor LaGuardia banning the vegetable in 1930