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TIL Fred Armisen was in a Chicago-based punk band called Trenchmouth

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6DLQ TIL in 2001 Mattel sold a Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 flying broom that vibrated when kids rode it. They pulled it from stores after adult stores began selling the toy.
GAr0J TIL that the grams of protein on “high protein” labels can be misleading. The % Daily Value is the real number to check, because it multiplies protein grams by a quality score (PDCAAS) to show how much of that protein is actually usable.
PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
Y7p0Z TIL L. Frank Baum, author of 'The Wizard of Oz', owned a newspaper and frequently wrote in it that all Native Americans should be exterminated
BgBEb TIL that in 2014, scientists discovered a 30,000-year-old virus in Siberian permafrost. Named Pithovirus sibericum, it was still infectious and started killing amoebae, raising concerns about the potential release of unknown pathogens due to Arctic ice melting or drilling.