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TIL 4% of Americans believe shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies.

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16ZWD TIL Walmart pulled an educational toy after a bilingual grandmother recognized the item was using Polish profanity as well as singing in Polish about suicide, depression, drug abuse, and cocaine.
Wkmb9 TIL that the dress worn by Katrina at the end of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was just a white silk dress drawn on with magic marker to give it its black stripes.
b9eGj TIL that a group of bears is called a "sleuth of bears". Also: a sounder of boars, clowder of cats, mob of cattle, coalition of cheetahs, bask of crocodiles, pod of dolphins, bed of eels, cast of falcons, business of flies, band of gorillas, boil of hawks, kindle of kittens, barrel of monkeys
QNNyk TIL the film Cannonball Run was based on a sea-to-sea race. The challenge was conceived in the 70s by two editors of Car and Driver magazine and run five times, though the first race was non-competitive as it involved a single car
rmpd TIL Anderson Cooper is the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.