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TIL the 1965 film ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so Historically Inaccurate, That President Eisenhower Came Out of Retirement & Held a Press Conference Just to Denounce the Film.

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l69V TIL, during a 1998 renovation of Benjamin Franklin’s house, the bones of 10 people (6 of them children) were found in a windowless room in the basement.
PY11g TIL cream soda is vanilla flavoured.
VMO5Q TIL that a French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family's name? Commette.
78rvr TIL that the shape of Pringles has a name: hyperbolic paraboloid
xV0Q1 TIL that some people smell of rotten fish and aren't fishermen. Trimethylaminuria is a rare metabolic problem causing people to emit the smelly odor of bad fish after eating eggs, liver, legumes or vegetables. There is no known cure and the problem is more common in women than men.