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TIL Mel Brooks put on a prosthetic 11th finger while adding his handprint to the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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ANLen TIL about the most influential PE coach in American pop culture- Leonard Skinner, who became the namesake for Lynyrd Skynyrd after he sent several band members to the principal’s office for wearing their hair too long.
DQEDP TIL Approximately a billion people are infected with the roundworm Ascaris
6x6w TIL barcode readers actually scan the white parts and not the black parts
OGX67 TIL Pedro Pascal’s parents returned to Chile in 1995 after his father Dr. Jose P. Balmaceda was accused of stealing fertility patients' eggs and embryos and implanting them in other women without their knowledge and consent.
dDQ7r TIL that a Frozen Charlotte is an inexpensive small china or bisque doll (c.1850–1920) that was popular in the Victorian era. Named after a ballad about a girl who froze to death on a sleigh ride, they were sometimes hidden in Christmas puddings and the smaller ones were popular for doll’s houses.