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TIL that the Beastie Boys coined the term "mullet"

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rYve TIL - Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz”) suffered 3rd-degree burns to her face and hands during the scene in Munchkinland where she exits in a ball of flame.
7rWxM TIL Walmart employs 1% of all US workers.
G8DG TIL 19th century Czech anatomist-physiologist, Jan Purkyně (Johann Purkinje), was so famous that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all they had to put as the address was “Purkyně, Europe”.
bPr0 TIL that the US and Britain nearly went to war in 1859 because an American farmer shot a pig and then refused to pay for it. The US sent 461 men to “make a Bunker Hill of it” and Britain sent 2,140 men and five warships before President Buchanan calmed everyone the heck down.
9YjlM TIL about 1 in 100,000,000 lobsters are "cotton-candy" blue.