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TIL Japan has Professional Apologizers you can hire if you don’t to personally do it yourself

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BJKb TIL The first circus elephant in the United States (and possibly the first elephant brought to the US) was shot and killed by a religious fanatic who thought it was sinful for people to pay to see an animal.
W7688 TIL Having a Lot of Money Affects Your Personality
O8J1 TIL Gillette and Schick own Duracell and Energizer and created powered safety razors to increase battery sales. Claims of a better shave were labeled “unsubstantiated and inaccurate” by American courts.
NDyJ TIL in 1920, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested thousands of innocent Americans for radical leftist activity, in what is now called the Palmer Raids
bGvZ TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses