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TIL Elmer McCurdy was mummified and used as a stage prop for 26 years before people realized his corpse was a real body

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16B6V TIL the movie Grease (1978) was created as a parody for the very thing it’s typically celebrated for - Corny 1950’s teen musicals.
LkGbZ TIL a 1966 World Cup match was moved from Wembley because the stadium owner refused to cancel regular greyhound racing held on the same day
woy8J TIL that a large proportion of the real estate agents are unable to sell a property for a price that compensates for the added cost of their commission. Additionally, selling your home without an agent yields higher sales prices on average.
0d6vy TIL Francis Ngannou worked in Sand mines as a child, was homeless in France, jailed as an illegal in Spain, lived in the forest where he cut himself open scaling barbed wire and was subsequently deserted in the dessert in Morocco before he ever trained to be a fighter.
0de4v TIL over 30% of the US population lives in four states: California, Texas, Florida, New York.