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TIL of 28 year old Tommie Woodward, who chose to swim in a Texas bayou after sunset while exclaiming “F%*# the alligators”. He was then fatally attacked by an 11 foot American Alligator.

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OoaxL TIL “Batman: The Animated Series” has been consistently ranked as one of the greatest animated television shows ever made. It has been highly praised for its sophistication, mature writing, voice acting, orchestrated soundtrack, artistic ambition, and faithfulness to the source material.
kvb1 TIL Richard Nixon once asked a man at Ghana’s Independence Day celebration “How does it feel to be free? The man answered: "How should I know?” “I come from Alabama.”
1xG7 TIL that while Mother’s Day is the biggest holiday for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls.
DQgAJ TIL that in the late 1800s, religious activist and U.S. Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock destroyed more than 30,000 pounds of books, and influenced Congress to ban the sale of "obscene" books. The resulting law was so broadly applied that some medical textbooks became illegal.
wLKrE TIL there are over 7,000 languages spoken today - 839 alone in Papua New Guinea. Roughly 1/3 of all languages are endangered.