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TIL that Weird Al signs contracts with artists before parodying their music, and they get paid too!

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xVZvw TIL of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a small island with 6000 inhabitants in the Gulf of Lawrence, 25 km off the coast of Newfoundland. It's the only remaining part of "New France" that still belongs to France. Inhabitants are French citizens and the euro is it's official currency.
NXxve TIL that the town of Talkeetna, Alaska had a orange cat as mayor for 20 years. Stubbs the cat even survived an assassination attempt by a dog.
4kom5 TIL Montana holds the world record for temperature change in a 24 hour period
9wRX TIL Mr. Bubble, bubble bath, is suspected to have caused a generation of women to have a life-long predisposition to UTI’s.
9jEG TIL the words “apron” and “napkin” were originally “napron” and “apkin” but the preceding indefinite articles (“an” and “a”) were so confusing to the ear that the words eventually just changed.