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TIL that 76% of the audience for The Simpsons is under 40 years old (as of November 2023)

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Vrvk TIL that the Nazi’s were staunch animal rights activists with major efforts to limit hunting and general animal cruelty. Göring, in particular, was a professed animal lover who proclaimed bans on both vivisection(Nazi Germany was the first country in the world to do so) and the shoeing of horses.
mZJx TIL at Gettysburg’s 50th reunion in 1913, a Union and a Confederate soldier stood where their regiments had fought and buried a hatchet.
VMX10 TIL that until 1991 there was a 3 acre aquarium in Montreal. The aquarium closed down after all of the dolphin trainers went on strike, leaving the dolphins unfed for 38 days and causing most of them to die
ZpJZQ Today I learned it takes about 21 gallons of water to produce one ear of corn.
gMWJy TIL in 2012, a Florida man has his hand bitten off by an alligator and he was charged with illegally feeding the animal.