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TIL that Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer was originally composed by a copywriter, as the marketing campaign for a promotional colouring book

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oRpRK TIL before becoming a renowned writer, Eudora Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, documenting rural life in Mississippi. Her photography often reflected the same keen observation of people and their environments as her fiction.
4RVX TIL Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted.
MbVm TIL that the cast of “School of Rock” played a 10 year anniversary show in a small club. Piano kid seems to lack a cape.
XEVWr TIL the archer fish's most notable attribute is its uncanny ability to fire a "super-soaker" jet of water to knock down its insect prey into the water where it is quickly eaten. They can spray up to 10 ft with astonishing precision while at the same time compensating for the water refraction angle.
OorvL TIL Douglas Gene Williams, an American critic of polygraph tests, was convicted after becoming a target of a federal sting operation to teach agents how to conceal crime