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TIL New Guinean tribes attempted to domesticate cassowaries eighteen thousand years ago

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09gv TIL in Nickelodeon’s “The Fairly OddParents”, Timmy Turner’s hat is pink because producer Butch Hartman ran out of blue ink.
nW50b TIL The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.
B9Nk TIL Tsundoku is Japanese for buying books, but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.
m14bo TIL webcams were first invented in 1993 as a way to check for coffee at Cambridge University
pYn9Z TIL of the Gold Sock Killer, a unidentified Floridian serial killer active only in 1973 who got his moniker for strangling his victims to death with socks; however, a gold-colored sock was only used in two murders.