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TIL Snoop Dogg helped hand out 1,500 turkeys to needy Inglewood residents last Thanksgiving; he also stuck around to pose for photos with over 800 people.

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rxbo TIL Colonial Williamsburg was restored largely with funding by John D Rockefeller Jr. The project became an obsession of his. He ultimately spent $1 billion (adj.) to create one of the largest historic sites in the USA. Jr. eventually bought a home nearby, spending several months there each year.
6E5PX TIL that flatworms reproduce by "penis fencing", where each worm attempts to stab the other with their penis. They are hermaphrodites, so the loser is impregnated.
8e7xa TIL that alma mater roughly translates to a mother’s milk, or “nourishing mother”
wmRY TIL four of the main characters in Disney’s Frozen reflect the author on which the original story is based. Hans Christian Anderson = Hans, Kristoff, Anna, Sven.
9MeX TIL Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while high on LSD. The MLB refuses to release footage saying its “an embarrassment to the league”.