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TIL during the 18th century, you could pay your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.

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41Yb TIL A 7300 kg sperm whale was exploded using half a ton of dynamite with chunks of flesh flying up to 240m away. By coincidence, a brand new Oldsmobile, purchased during a “Get a Whale of a Deal” promotion, was flattened by a chunk of falling blubber after the blast.
78ZaP TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus
M61V TIL the show Deadliest Catch negatively impacts the entire Bering Sea crabbing industry by artificially lowering the operating costs of the boats on the show due to their subsidy from Discovery, allowing them to undercut the competition
KO4wJ TIL of Dennis Tito, the first space tourist. He paid $20 million in 2001 to spend 7 days, 22 hours, and 4 minutes in space.
O7nL TIL In 1940 the Soviet Union shot down a civilian Finnish flight traveling from Helsinki to Tallinn. To help preserve peace the Finnish government hid the fact for over a year.