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TIL that Hugh Grant’s middle name is Mungo. So his name is Hugh Mungo

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1aAb4 TIL keeping your bed unmade can be good for your health, as an unmade bed creates less moisture than a made one and bed bugs require a moist environment to thrive
DQwwD TIL in 1973, food manufacturer Mario Fabbrini held "The Great Michigan Pizza Burial" after 40,000 of his frozen pies were recalled due to botulism concerns. They were dumped in a grave in Ossineke during a service attended by hundreds, with the state governer even giving a eulogy of sorts.
WkGY4 TIL that sponges are living animals and were the first animals to diverge from the evolutionary tree from all animals' common ancestor, making them the sister group of all other animals.
wLDaE TIL Shel Silverstein, acclaimed children's author of notable books such as The Giving Tree, also wrote award winning scores and lyrics; including winning a Grammy for A Boy Named Sue popularized by Johnny Cash
J1NKj TIL there is a group called The Unicode Consortium. It's most well known for approving emoji designs. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which keeps code and text standardized across platforms.