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TIL Humpty Dumpty is not explicitly described as an egg and is theorized to be a metaphor for King Richard II, or a Cannon

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kOGEd TIL Dodge makes both the #1 and the #2 on the list of the 2016-18 cars that are most likely to be stolen - the Charger HEMI and the Challenger SRT Hellcat.
GYKlg TIL when the Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov visited the US in 1962, the American press initially portrayed him as affable and polite. But when he said, "I saw neither angels nor God up there. I believe in man," the press quickly turned on him and accused him of spreading "anti-religious propaganda."
b69Y0 TIL of Proton‐Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy or PENIS; A method for high resolution observation of dilute spins in solids
bnrN TIL Because Malcolm McDowell’s character killed Captain Kirk in “Star Trek: Generations”, he got death threats, some of them in Kilngon
Mbab TIL 9 patients in Austin Texas accounted for 2700 emergency room visits over a six year span costing tax payers 3 million dollars.