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TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary quotes the Beastie Boys nine times

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woOgY TIL that the Pop-It bubble popper was originally invented in 1975 by Theo and Ora Coster of Theora Concepts: a married Israeli couple who had invented many games including Guess Who? and Zingo!. Incidentally, Theo was a former classmate of Anne Frank.
WkWbA TIL that as many as 8% of male sheep have an exclusive preference for sex with other males.
d4QZ TIL that green coffee beans produce an enzyme that converts any donor blood type to type O, the universal donor.
gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
vyD8 TIL that some Buddhists see the movie “Groundhog Day” as a modern representation of their religion.