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TIL the author of the Dr. Dolittle series, Hugh Lofting, created the book in a series of letters to his children while he was fighting in the First World War as a way to spare them from the horrors he was witnessing being committed on both humans and animals alike

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epjj6 TIL a former TX Justice of the Peace, Eric Williams is currently on death row, convicted in the 2013 deaths of the Kaufman County Criminal District Attorney and his wife. They were killed in a home invasion-type assault on their property. He was charged in a 3rd death of a criminal justice official
NX7eE TIL that the European Union has a defensive alliance. This clause provides that if an EU country is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other EU countries have an obligation to aid and assist it by all the means in their power.
R7Wl4 TIL of Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1460-1491). His sister eloped with a nobleman and ran off with the family jewels. Believing she had been kidnapped, he followed the pair to the nobleman's castle and tried to cross the frozen moat. His armor was too heavy; he fell through the ice and drowned.
BgrNL TIL about Agloe, New York. A fake town created by a US map company as a copyright trap that became real when a man put a general store there and named it after the name he saw on the map. The map company learned about this right when they sued a competitor for plagiarism and thus lost the case.
jl1E TIL we got the terms “bear market” and “bull market” from the ways the animals attack. Bears strike downward, while bulls launch themselves upward into the air.