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TIL Thomas Jefferson is accredited as the creator of the swivel chair, the first of which he created and used to write much of the Declaration of Independence.

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Mebga TIL the Milwaukee Brewers mascot, Bernie Brewer, is based on a real person. Milt Mason sat on top of the scoreboard and refused to leave until 40,000 people came to a game. He stayed there 40 days.
9Ywmr TIL of the huia bird. It went extinct in 1907 and its call was never recorded, but it exists today because an elderly Maori man imitated in 1949 from memories of his childhood.
mxNbP TIL a 1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched Sesame Street by the time they were three years old.
LVom TIL that a Buddhist master named his penis “Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom,” told women that they could achieve Nirvana through sex with him, and had them pay him in beer for sex rendered.
VeJQ TIL of black musician Daryl Davis, who dissolved Maryland’s KKK by befriending its members.