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TIL out of all the words Dr. Seus made up, there are only 2 in the dictionary attributed to him: “grinch” and “nerd”.

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69emw Til There is a pair of brothers who are both general managers, one in the NFL and the other in the NHL.
e06OD TIL that when Queen performed for the first time in Australia, at the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, they were continuously booed by the crowd, they went on to finish their set with Freddie Mercury yelling to the crowd "When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!"
Meknm TIL There are 150 million mammoths buried in frozen Siberian tundra. Trading in mammoth ivory is legal but elephant ivory is not, leading to poaching of mammoth tusk ivory. Hence, laws are being planned to include mammoth under protected species despite being extinct for 4000 years.
PYkng TIL Ug99 is a plant fungus that may threat worldwide wheat production in the future. It has the potential to cause a massive global famine since it causes up to 100% crop losses. So far, it has been detected in 22 countries in Asia and Africa.
Eg880 TIL Saturn's Moon Titan has actual lakes, rivers and even clouds and fog made out of liquid methane