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TIL a child that was Bart’s age when The Simpson’s first premiered would now be the same age as Homer.

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J11GB TIL We eat chicken 'drumsticks' because the Victorian era taboo surrouding sexual language was so strong that even using the word 'leg' was considered impolite.
8eGB8 TIL ex-Dallas Cowboys’ coach Jimmy Johnson went to high school with Janis Joplin in Texas. Despite bullying her, his friends slept with her because she was “weird”
6EQ6Y TIL that exclusive sale rights of colchicine, a 2000-year-old treatment for gout, was given to a pharmaceutical company in 2009. They raised the price 50x, costing the government over $50 million/year.
neG6G TIL Comcast subscribers pay ~$2.64 billion a year for channels they could get for free
grWRX TIL there are actually three Lunar Roving Vehicles parked on the moon. These were left behind from the final three Apollo missions - 15, 16 and 17 (Aug 1971, Apr 1972 and Dec 1972 respectively). For the last 50 years, I have believed only one LRV was ever taken to the moon.