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TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".

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Oo4Y7 TIL two of the three members of rock band ZZ Top have long beards. The third, Frank Beard prefers to be clean shaven.
nPKP TIL that a parrot named Echo was put into witness protection after testifying against its owner leading to their arrest
QNGbE TIL Curtis Armstrong who played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, also voiced Snot in American Dad.
nWV9W TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.
bknE TIL the appendix is used as a safe-house for beneficial bacteria for when you have diarrhea