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TIL that the Simpsons character Frank Grimes was inspired by Michael Douglas, in the 1993 film Falling Down.

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DVoJ TIL that the Welsh town Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is town twinned with Y in France and Ee in the Netherlands
oBddR TIL that we can’t taste as well at high altitude.
ne9Md TIL a man in 2002 found a way to crack the lottery in the US state of Michigan using math and probability. He figured out that if he bought a certain amount of tickets that he would certainly make a profit. He and his wife Marge ended up making millions of dollars.
6NBW TIL that radiologist Carl Tanzler, obsessed with one of his patients, exhumed her body after two years, encased it in wax and plaster of paris, and slept with it for another seven years.
lov11 TIL in 1850 Milk in New York was so contaminated that caused 8000 infants deaths in just one year.