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TIL J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity

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d8GPZ TIL that Groundhog Day was introduced to America by German settlers who originally used a hedgehog to predict the weather, switching to the groundhog as they were easier to come across in the Keystone State.
7LgO TIL of BAHFest, a satirization of TED talks produced to demonstrate that you could use a bad ad-hoc hypothesis to demonstrate anything. Like why babies are designed to be catapulted.
9wvDB TIL of the single tax movement (aka geoism or georgism), an economic ideology where that the government should be funded by a tax on land rent rather than taxes on labor
rRV8x TIL The best pictures we have of the Mt. St. Helens eruption came from a photographer that was close to the eruption. He realized there was nothing he could do, so he took as many pictures as he could, put his camera back in the bag, and used his body to protect it from the ash.
VBX6Z TIL NRBQ served as the unofficial house band for The Simpsons seasons 10-12. Head writer Mike Scully was a big fan of the band and featured their music multiple times. Also NRBQ played the original song Mayonnaise and Marmalade and performed in the end credits for the episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze"