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TIL 2013 was a big year for the baby name CHEESE

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b6DM4 TIL what happens when a queen bee dies
loyaK TIL that there is a Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of M&M's. Will Cutbill currently holds the record of 5 M&M’s.
69vNl TIL when deciding what to name the town during a meeting, the residents got so frustrated with everyone saying "why not this" and "why not that," they just named the town, "Whynot," North Carolina, so they could all go home.
gro6L TIL After hurricane Katrina Brad Pitt set up the Make It Right Foundation to build homes for those effected. The project had famous architects but the homes were not designed or constructed for a New Orleans environment. By 2022 only 6 of the 109 houses were deemed to be in "reasonably good shape."
JYLw8 TIL that the melting clocks in Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" were inspired when Dali saw the look of a Camembert cheese- a soft French cheese- melting in the sun