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ANg8o TIL The Bermuda Triangle is an urban legend. The idea of the area as uniquely prone to disappearances arose in the mid-20th century, but most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery.
grAOX TIL: Playboy is also published in braille. It eventually became the sixth most popular periodical in the U.S. National Library Service for the Blind’s Braille magazine catalog
Le7p TIL that William Frawley, who played Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy, was such an avid Yankees fan that his DesiLu contract contained a clause allowing him to skip work if the Yanks were playing in the World Series.
l7LB1 TIL the current Spanish-language World Champion for Scrabble has previously also won the French-language and English-language championships. A New Zealander, he only speaks English.
mxX9E TIL Compared with hunter-gatherers, industrialized peoples’ intestines have fewer kinds of microbes—and are missing at least one major group of ancient bacteria. Yet even with all of these extra microbes, hunter-gatherers have fewer gut ailments, such as Crohn’s disease, colitis, and colon cancer.