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TIL Mean Girls was based on self-help book aimed at parents of teenage girls

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VyWB TIL a black musician helped dissolve the entire KKK in Maryland by making inroads with its members and imperial wizard, collecting their robes and hoods as they resigned that life. He had befriended 25 people.
M7pJ7 TIL that sound recordings were first stored on cylinders prior to the invention of vinyl disc records
ZpALa TIL Female Kangaroos Have Three Vaginas. Marsupials, including the most popular one, the kangaroo, are equipped with a total of three vaginas. Three vaginas, two uteri, all there to serve their own joey-bearing purpose.
yVl5l TIL that the soap opera Days of Our Lives' first season has won 241 awards and was nominated for 631 more. Started in 1965, the show's first season is still ongoing and contains well over 14 thousand episodes.
7reDx TIL A WW2 pigeon named Mary of Exeter survived an assassination attempt by a German warhawk, was shot, hit with shrapnel, and survived a bombing of her loft while delivering messages across the English Channel to France.