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TIL the Pennsylvania Dutch celebrate their own version of Fat Tuesday, called Fastnacht (Fast Night) - where they bake and eat doughnuts

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Wk0YL TIL that Andre Geim won the parodistic Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.
W4jo TIL that in EverQuest, the sale of valuable items for both in-game platinum and for actual money allows exchange rates to be worked out. The BBC reported in 2002 that EQ was the 77th richest country in the world, between Russia and Bulgaria, with a higher GDP per capita than both China and India.
VMKvZ TIL Mark Hamill appeared on a progressive death metal album.
wowa7 TIL most chewing gum is made out of plastic
p66Q TIL that the US Vice President is the only officer in the Line of Succession that can ever succeed to the title of President; the remaining officers could only be Acting President