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Til There are over 750 episodes of “Pokémon.” That’s about 50 a year for 16 years straight.

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kOmJB TIL about the Flint Hills of Kansas which, thanks to surface geology full of limestone, contain the largest remaining piece of original tallgrass prairie left in North America.
b9gyj TIL When a patient is zapped with a defibrillator, their heart stops beating altogether - the two electric paddles attached to the patient's chest essentially 'reset' the heartbeat. Once the heartbeat stops, the heart starts afresh and begins beating normally again.
NXVGE TIL that woodlice are not insects, they are crustaceans and are related to lobsters.
XDrE TIL directors were told to shoot John Wayne’s scenes before noon, because by afternoon he “was a mean drunk”.
EekX TIL that in 1517, a nobleman offered to pay a corrupt Catholic monk for an indulgence in order to forgive him of a future sin. The monk quickly agreed and granted it, but as he rode out of town the nobleman attacked and beat him. He then told the monk that was the future sin he had in mind.