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4kv0X TIL Cooperstown was founded by James Fenimore Cooper’s father
xV4Gb TIL Naturalist Thomas Savage went to Africa and acquired the skull and bones from an unknown ape species, which he described in 1847. The ape is known today as western gorilla
egZg TIL that in 2011 the head of the American College of Surgeons was forced to resign after he wrote a Valentine’s Day editorial touting the mood-enhancing effects of semen on women during unprotected sex, which was completely supported by the research he cited in said editorial.
9eV6 TIL Dan Aykroyd co-founded the House of Blues, and did it with the mission to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art.
9Glp TIL of an Australian prime minister named Harold Holt who served from 1966 to 1967. One day, while in office, he went for a swim and just disappeared without a trace.