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TIL that before tasting his first cookie that Cookie Monster’s name was Sid

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xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops
8eB8K TIL that Olympic silver medalist and former World champion figure skater Michelle Kwan currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to Belize
ReOj TIL Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey stared in a 2003 movie called “Tiptoes” in which McConaughey’s entire family are dwarves. And Gary Oldman in “a role of a lifetime” plays McConaughey’s twin brother, also a dwarf.
d80EQ TIL about Marinos Mitralexis, a Greek WW2 pilot who downed an Italian bomber by ramming when out of ammo, made an emergency landing and arrested the surviving bomber crew with his pistol.
47La TIL that the infamous “Florida Man” phenomenon is caused by the state’s transparency laws, which give the media access to all arrest reports.