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TIL that Moe, Curly, and Shemp were brothers. Larry wasn’t related to the other ones.

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GYdE5 TIL that in 1997 the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial
RaMa TIL in India, in order to promote lower birth rates, authorities have created a sterilization lottery. Individuals that volunteer to be sterilized are given 600 rupees and their names are put into a lottery to win televisions, motorcycles, food processors, and the grand prize, a Tata Nano.
6l4Z TIL a professor in France carried out a 15-year study of 330 women’s breasts, measuring and examining their breasts to study the effects of living without the support of a bra. His conclusion is that a bra is useless.
ADLBl TIL the Aegean Sea is named after Aegeus, father of Theseus. Aegeus told Theseus to put up white sails when returning if he was successful killing the Minotaur. Theseus forgot & Aegeus subsequently drowned himself in the sea.
416X TIL the Iraq war will take decades to pay off. With the cost of interest, it could end up costing the American taxpayer over $6 trillion at the end of the day.