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TIL a child that was Bart’s age when The Simpson’s first premiered would now be the same age as Homer.

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64oY TIL 37 years before Pearl Harbor, Japan launched a surprise attack on Russia, destroying much of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. US officials applauded the attack for its ingenuity.
dDyjK TIL - the English word for Bear is descended from a Proto-Indo-European euphemism meaning brown one or wild animal, as it was feared saying it's real name 'arkto' would cause the animal to appear.
v1Ko8 TIL that Astroturf became the common name for Artificial turf after it gained popularity as an alternative to grass in the newly constructed Astrodome in the 1960s.
QAle TIL When Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed first time on the Moon, they honored as a Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals…
gMOXb TIL that in Kenya, elephant poop is being used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50kg a day which can produce 125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed, along with creating a need for the 7000 elephants left in Kenya.