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TIL Cookie Monster's name is Sid!!

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QLA9 TIL the head Detective of the ritzy art-theft unit of the LAPD was given a surprise interrogation by fellow detectives about a murder she got away with over 20 years ago. Her facial and bodily reactions are intense, and afterward she was arrested for first degree murder.
Wk4A4 TIL Archimedes's cattle problem, a 2 millenium-old poem containing an arithmetical problem which involves computing the number of cattle the sun god's herd, was discovered in 1773. It took 107 years for it to be solved. The answer was 7.76x10^206544, more cattle than could fit in the universe.
kJP0m TIL the phallic symbol of Makamake, the second largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, is because the God of Fertility it was named after has big eyes and nose
ekvD TIL: The quietest place on earth measures -9 db. It’s located in an acoustics and architecture test facility in Minnesota. Most people can’t stay longer than about 20 minutes and emerge disoriented and unsettle.
dD6dK TIL Vincent Price did about 400 recordings for The Hilarious House of Frightenstein in four days and for about $13,000 in 1971, his standard appearance fee. The show itself only ran for one season.