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TIL 40% of all Vietnamese people have the last name Nguyen.

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16B6V TIL the movie Grease (1978) was created as a parody for the very thing it’s typically celebrated for - Corny 1950’s teen musicals.
oB4lo TIL To try to combat mosquito outbreaks, Disney World monitors coops of “sentinel chickens” that are stationed around the park. If a mosquito-borne virus shows up in the chickens’ blood, Disney doubles down on its bug-slaying efforts in the area.
VMx84 TIL Art Garfunkel has kept a list of every book he's read since 1968, and lists Fifty Shades of Grey among his favorites
MePKa TIL about the Mugwumps, who were Republican political activists who voted Democrat in 1884 to protest GOP financial corruption...
4Yga TIL spiders can’t chew or swallow, so they inject poison into their prey which turns the insides of insect to a watery goop and spider just suck it up.