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TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.

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GYyy5 TIL that in Tina Fey's childhood, her parents allowed her to watch Young Frankenstein, SNL, Monty Python, Marx Brothers, and the Honeymooners, but she was not allowed to watch The Flintstones.
VB6wm TIL that Stanley Kubrick, who has four films on the AFI's Top 100 list of all time (2001, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Spartacus), never received either an Oscar or a Golden Globe for his directorial work.
OXJa TIL 32% of home buyers in the United States are Millennials, more than any other generation of home buyers (including baby boomers)
neV7 TIL on September 6, 1949, a mentally disturbed WWII vet killed 13 of his neighbors and injured 3 more in what is considered the first single-episode mass murder in US history. When he died in 2009, his last words were “I’d have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.”
YpKgP TIL that watermelons can be yellow.