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TIL Hot dogs are not sandwiches according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council

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VAP8 TIL In the fifth season of South Park, they were going to kill off the character of Kyle in the episode “Kenny Dies”. They thought the characters Stan and Kyle were too similar, and wanted to “genuinely shock the fans.”
eRG5 TIL that in some countries (such as Zimbabwe) it is commonly believed that sex with an albinistic woman cures HIV. This has led to rapes and subsequent spread of HIV.
LQoQ9 TIL after he died, all of Nikola Tesla's belongings were confiscated by the FBI
Y7YZx TIL 38% of the female billionaires in the world attribute their wealth entirely to inheritance, whereas, just 5% of male billionaires inherited all of their wealth.
5YZlr TIL An anthropologist created the language "Beama" for the film Alpha, about a young man separated from his tribe who befriends a wolf 20,000 years ago. She explored the research on phonetic sounds of protolanguages to determine how Beama should sound, and the director preferred more melodic-sounds