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TIL that Elmo from Sesame Street is the only puppet or non-human to testify before Congress in 2002, advocating for increased funding for music programs.

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OG6Me TIL Saint Elmo's Fire can cause the tips of bull horns to glow and hiss, or crackle.
ANAwn TIL that you should be very careful getting information from ChatGPT, as the AI can easily (unintentionally) produce misinformation.
Dw7e TIL Public Policy Polling conducted a poll in 2013 that found 27% of Americans thought hipsters should be assessed a special tax for being annoying
D8Yr TIL that Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” was actually about how television destroys interest in literature, not about censorship and while giving a lecture in UCLA the class told him he was wrong about his own book, and he just walked away.
L7G0 TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.