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TIL Many of the coupons featured on TLC’s “Extreme Couponing” were fraudulent.

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N7pr1 TIL that so prevalent is the empty cardboard box's reputation as a plaything that in 2005 a cardboard box was added to the National Toy Hall of Fame.
VBrvD TIL there is a Filipino dish called pinapaitan, a kind of goat stew. It is seasoned with the goat’s bile (which makes it bitter) and offal, such as tripe, kidneys, liver, heart, intestines, pancreas, spleen, hide, or blood. One researcher suggested that men consume the dish as a display of machismo.
7rGnb TIL that as a child, actor Michael Berryman would be teased because of his appearance (he was born with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, leaving him with no sweat glands, hair, fingernails or teeth). He would "go to the parents and say your children are brats and tell them they were bad parents".
kOO9W Do you have a hard time waking up? You’re not alone!
4k0WX TIL about the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, where three keepers mysteriously disappeared in 1900, leaving no trace of their fate.