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TIL That Tommy Pickles’ mother was Russian-Jewish American. This means that Tommy Pickles and Dil Pickles were Kosher Pickles.

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gMNQ8 TIL about a book called Cain’s Jawbone where a detective story is told through 100 pages, but the reader has to figure out the order of the pages to solve the mysteries. Only three people have solved it to date.
gMWN8 TIL the same apple tree from which an apple fell and supposedly hit Isaac Newton, inspiring his theory of gravity, is still growing at his family home over 350 years later
78bVr TIL The fossilised remains of a T rex and a Triceratops who died fighting eachother, discovered in 2006, remained in private hands and thus unavailable for study unti 2024, partially because of land dispute over whether fossils are minerals or not. A court in Montanta ruled that fossils are minerals
5Mln TIL of the Rosenhan experiment: Sane people faked hearing voices to see if they would be accurately diagnosed. They weren’t. None of the subjects were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, though psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.
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