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TIL about "Mustache March," a USAF tradition of growing a spruce mustache in defiance of military grooming standards

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NXQM TIL that there is a company releasing genetically modified mosquitos with a “death gene” to breed with other mosquitos to decrease mosquito population
R7Vn9 TIL that Sesame Street had a Dolly Parton parody called Polly Darton that sang a version of 9to5 called 1 to 5 to help pre-schoolers count...
eD04 TIL In a song in 2004, Cookie Monster revealed that, before he ate his first cookie, he believes his name was Sid
xQ97 TIL there is a 240 square kilometer zone many believe to be the site of Genghis Khan’s grave that was guarded from Khan’s death in 1227 until 1991. Khan’s tomb has still not been found.
rNG11 TIL that there are nearly 20 times as many billionaires today as in 1987. In 1987, there were just 140 billionaires in the world, worth a combined $295 billion. There are now 2,755 billionaires, worth a combined $13.1 trillion.