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TIL The Mad Hatterpillar wears its old heads as hats.

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VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
d847Q TIL Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a parody spinoff of Daredevil. Their origins stemming from the same incident that blinded Matt Murdock.
Y7dYB TIL that President William Taft became a Supreme Court Justice in 1921, 8 years after leaving the presidency.
9wDrM TIL jet lag was first mentioned by Wiley Post writing about his 1931 world record flight around the earth in eight days.
6Eo7Q TIL there’s a Hot Waitress Economic Index - an informal measure of the state of the economy that is compiled by counting the number of attractive people working as waiters/waitresses.