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TIL of the American Hippo Bill, an attempt to introduce hippos into the bayous of Lousiana

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yQEeX TIL that "Cedric" was not a name until Sir Walter Scott misspelled the Saxon name "Cerdic" in his novel "Ivanhoe".
0dNEy TIL: There is something called 'The Glitter Conspiracy'. One of the largest producers of glitter doens't want to tell what tge glitter is used for. Theories range from the use in explosives to boats
D1wDD TIL of the 1925 Shakee Massacre, where over a hundred peaceful Chinese protesters were gunned down in Guangzhou, China. The perpetrators were not punished and refused to even apologize.
x6MbD TIL that in 1933, Wall Street corporations conspired to overthrow the US government and install Medal of Honor recepient Smedley Butler as dictator. When Butler whistleblew the plan to Congress, he was awarded a second Medal of Honor - the only person to ever earn a second medal while still living.
JVkV TIL George Carlin was put on the FBI watchlist for doing an impersonation of J. Edgar Hoover on “The Jackie Gleason Show”.