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TIL that there is exactly one place in the British Isles to have a name with an exclamation point in its name.

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KYgjB TIL in 1599, when the local Jivaro Indians in Ecuador got tired of enduring the cruel Spanish governor, who heavily taxed gold miners. The Indians caught this lover of gold and poured molten metal down his throat.
l7nWG TIL in 2003, 12yo Auri Allen was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not due to his massive size, nicknamed Baby Shaq. By 2006, he was regarded as one of the top 5 basketball players in the country, until a car crash paralyzed him. He later became a Head Coach and founded his own basketball academy.
e0NJ4 TIL LCD screens are polarized
kOLVm TIL that Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson} also voices Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Mandela Muntz, Tod Flanders, and Chuckie (Rugrats).
XNDP TIL Peggy Bundy, played by Katey Sagal, whose real life pregnancy was written into season 6. When the actress suffered a miscarriage, the pregnancy storyline was written as a dream of Al’s, as it was felt it would be too traumatic for Katey Sagal to work with an infant.