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TIL That President Kennedy promised to “end housing discrimination with a stroke of the pen” when he got in to office; when he didn’t do so, Civil Rights groups sent thousands of pens to the White House in protest.

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04Mv TIL all that remains of Shakespeare’s handwriting are six signatures, none of which are spelt ‘Shakespeare’.
Y7BVd TIL in France there is a group called the Garden Gnome Liberation Front which steals garden gnomes with the goal of "freeing" them and "returning them to the wild".
Z8v04 TIL Grazing animals such as horses and bison are known to engineer the landscape around them, for example suppressing the growth of trees by trampling or eating saplings. When this process is harnessed to restore an ecosystem to a previous state it is called rewilding.
VkxB TIL that Steven Spielberg’s top choice for Eddie Valiant in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ was Bill Murray but they were unable to contact him since he has no agent. When Murray later read about this he screamed at the top of his lungs as he would have definitely accepted the part.