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TIL “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine

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LQDQ9 TIL a European "Get Some Nuts" Snickers commercial featuring Mr. T using a vehicle-mounted rotary machine gun to shoot Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a "disgrace to the man race" was pulled in 2008 after a group in the U.S. complained that the advertisement was homophobic.
87gb TIL that Bob Odenkirk, Saul from Breaking Bad, wrote the famous “Van down by the river” Chris Farley sketch.
0jwR TIL that eugenics, a movement that led to the murder of millions in WWII, was practiced in the United States many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany, which were largely inspired by the previous American work.
KY9mw TIL that while Gina DeJesus was held captive for years in Ariel Castro's house, her father unknowingly interacted with Castro, even sharing beers and conversations in his garden, never realizing his daughter was imprisoned mere feet away.
R5N76 TIL in 1933, Albert Einstein, who left Nazi Germany for the United States, suggested the formation of the International Relief Association. Now known as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), it has provided assistance to millions of refugees and displaced persons across some 40 countries.