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TIL Peanuts premiered on this day 62 years ago.

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LRVQ TIL Calgary police returned a woman’s stolen car to her with illegal items from the thieves the police forgot to seize: a gun, knife, lead pipe, crack pipe, a bag of cocaine, and 4 IDs.
lQoG TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung
bdna TIL that in a review of the vocal ranges of popular singers, Mike Patton of Faith No More was found to have the widest at just over six octaves.
4XEd5 TIL Judge Judy is not a judge on her show, but an arbitrator in a binding arbitration. The seemingly official looking outfits and sets are really just for show.
b9YP0 TIL that with the exception of college or military service, 37 percent of Americans have never lived outside their hometown, and 57 percent of Americans have never lived outside their home state.