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TIL the paving rocks of the Champs Élisées come from Saudi Arabia

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badp TIL King Goobot V, supreme ruler of the Yolkians and Jimmy Neutron’s arch-nemesis, was voiced by none other than Sir Patrick Stewart
neDVd TIL there is speculation that Martín Alonso Pinzón, the captain of the Pinta in Christopher Columbus' fleet and a major financial backer of the expedition, had already been to the New World in a voyage with French navigator Jean Cousin in 1488.
69LN8 TIL E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” is on banned books list b/c talking animals & “ it questions some religious beliefs.” https://readingpartners.org/blog/five-more-childrens-books-you-didnt-know-were-banned/
OnX4 TIL that Nosebleed, a movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.
oROar TIL A human nose is capable of detecting a trillion different smells