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TIL The donkey was chosen as the Democratic Party symbol when Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a Jackass in 1832.

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19N4 TIL Mars, Inc. thought E.T. to be so ugly they feared the character would frighten children and refused to allow M&Ms to be used in the movie. This opened the door to Hershey’s, who took the opportunity to market Reese’s Pieces.
woYQ1 TIL dogs can be blood donors
Da1r TIL China owns less than 10% of USA’s overall debt
jbAv TIL of the Egyptian god Kek, a god of chaos and nighttime who was represented by a frog.
KOY6 TIL: Methuselah, from the Bible, is accredited as being the oldest person to have ever lived, dying at age 969 years. But it is thought that this is a mistranslation and that he was 969 lunar months old when he died (78.5 years old) since early Judaic tribes used lunar months to gauge time.