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TIL The Simpsons is credited with the popularization of the word “Meh”

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kO005 TIL that even though a Rubik's Cube has 43 billion billion configurations, more than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches, no configuration is more than 20 moves away from being solved, and 99.99999% of all configurations can be solved in less than 20 moves.
W7ONB TIL With only one exception every single President that's been shot has been has been a Republican.
b9B70 TIL that there have been two successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an UNSUCCESSFUL one in China that had to be reversed because the wife of the forty-four-year-old recipient panicked at the idea that he now had someone else's penis
Wkkd4 TIL Steve-O was nearly mauled by a lion while shooting one of the one of the first Nintendo Ds commercials
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