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TIL that only one character on the Simpsons 26 season series has ever had five fingers. That character is God.

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BrNVK TIL physicist Leon Lederman wrote a book about the Higgs Boson he called "The Goddamn Particle" but his publisher didn't like it and shortened it to "The God Particle", and the nickname stuck
BrQZD TIL the reason goats have rectangular shaped pupils rather than rounded pupils is to protect them from predators. This shape gives them a panoramic view of their surroundings to better see predators sneaking up on them.
G774 TIL that JK Rowling was turned down by 12 publishers and told to get a job before finaly finding a publisher for Harry Potter
XZWr TIL the Playstation 2 is the best selling game console of all time, selling 155 million units. 131 million more than the XBOX.
p8pMG TIL the four-term Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, famous for his hard-line segregationist views and his four presidential campaigns, renounced his past racial views and ran for his final term in 1982, winning with over 90% of the Black vote.