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TIL after being selected to have a star on the walk of fame, there’s a $30,000 fee if you actually want it.

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grorX TIL Machiavelli hated the clergy. Bored at work at a monastery, he amused himself by asking his boss to send him fat envelops stuffed with paper and instruct messengers to run, just to mess with the priests and make them think there's something important going on that they're not privy to
4XZW5 TIL that "Charlie" as used to refer to enemies in movies like Forrest Gump comes from the spoken alphabet, where the words "Victor Charlie" meant the letters VC = Viet Cong. As this was used a lot in radio communications, over time it became shortened to just "Charlie".
a8MJ TIL That there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
yVyOV TIL That anteaters have no teeth.
eprK6 TIL the dodo was not hunted to extinction. Its extinction was most likely the result of hurricanes, local floods, deforestation, and their eggs and young being eaten by pigs and monkeys.