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TIL my fitted sheets have a tag that indicates the side it should go on, thereby reducing the confusion about which is the long or short side.

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11v4 TIL that a 1976 episode of Sesame Street featured The Wicked Witch of the West becoming the crush of Oscar the Grouch and threatening to turn Big Bird into a feather duster, among other things. The episode was aired only once because “the threat of the witch’s power [remained] in children’s eyes.”
MeK4m TIL Harriet Tubman was give a $20 a month pension after the civil war, this is why she will be on the redesigned $20 bill
DQANY TIL a distant relative of modern dragonflies had a wingspan of about 30 inches
69gaw TIL construction of the Manchester Ship Canal began in 1887 and took six years and cost £15 million at the time.
LaQQ TIL Julie D'Aubigny was a famous 17th century French opera singer who once entered a convent just so she could have sex with a nun. She also had a habit of seducing women at parties, which would lead their husbands to challenge her to a duel. She was an expert duelist and killed 10 men like this.