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TIL Ben Franklin trolled rival almanac publisher Titan Leeds by predicting Leeds' death, down to the hour, in his Poor Richard's Almanac.

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b1PQ TIL @ 2009 with movies like “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, “Legally Blonde” and stars like Paris Hilton, California animal shelters were overpopulated with Chihuahuas. Several rescue organizations took these Chihuahua, flew them to cities in the East Coast where there was a Chihuahua deficit.
QJELd TIL that Shakespeare’s Birthplace was nearly sold in 1846 to an American businessman who wanted to demolish and move the house to America. It was saved by a consortium that included Charles Dickens.
OoyEg TIL: A scientist from the Mars Viking mission believes we found life on Mars over 40 years ago. It was dismissed at the time despite strong signals that the tests were positive, and since then there’s been no attempt to repeat the experiment.
v1AjD TIL that Anthony Bourdain did not respect many celebrity chefs, with the notable exception of Thomas Keller. Keller once served Bourdain a 20-course tasting menu which included a mid-meal “coffee and cigarette,” a coffee custard infused with tobacco, with a foie gras mousse.
WkjWA TIL, if we were to compress the entire history of the earth into a single year, modern humans would only appear on December the 31st at around 11:36 PM.