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TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children who are in the hospital and talks to them in character.

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kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
OoDK4 TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 and her name was Creme Puff
ExxV TIL the Montreal style bagel is smaller, sweeter and denser than the New York (or Brooklyn) style bagel and has a larger hole. It contains malt, but no sugar or salt (unlike the New York style) and is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked in a wood-fired oven.
nWBgB TIL that the Mashco Piro and the Yine were once a single Peruvian tribe that was split in 1894 when the rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald enslaved it. The Mashco Piro descended from the people who managed to escape, while the Yine descended from the ones who failed.
xdRo TIL that people from different languages arrange pictures of chronological events differently (English speakers from left to right, Hebrew from right to left), and that the Kuuk Thaayorre will arrange them from east to west regardless of the direction they face in the room.