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TIL The Daily Beast is named after a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.

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l70aB TIL of Umarell, an Italian subculture of older men who spend their time watching roadworks and construction sites.
5Ky9 TIL of the Crooked Forest, a grove in trees in Poland that grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks. No one knows why they grow like this.
1a7nX TIL that in 1969, Mr. Rogers appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to argue against the cutting of Federal Funds for PBS. He was successful in preventing the cuts.
GBeN TIL a father once jumped off a 100 foot bridge holding his 2 toddler sons after getting into an argument with their mother. The father was killed on impact, BOTH boys survived.
g4O9 TIL in 1945 to mitigate the impacts of German V2 rockets, British Counterintelligence released false reports of rockets overshooting London, subsequently causing the Germans to readjust and fall short of London for the remainder of the war. [26:00 min mark]