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TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.

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e0Pjn TIL in mizoram (India) every 50 years there is a phenomenon called 'rat bloom' where rat population explodes due to blooming of Mautam bamboos
QA46 TIL Eugene Debs was a socialist from Indiana who ran for President five times during the early 1900s. He was found guilty of sedition and sentenced to ten years in prison for speaking out against the Wilson administration and the World War I draft.
D1eXr TIL the tiny island country of Tokelau’s electricity is generated entirely by solar power. However, when it is overcast outside, the island runs on generators powered by coconut oil.
OoXe6 TIL The robot in Rocky IV was originally built to help kids with autism and its success with Stallone’s own autistic son is how it ended up in the movie
Oox07 TIL that the same US textbooks have different political leanings in different states that they are sold in though they are sold as the same books