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TIL Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick the President has successful predicted the outcome of all but one of the presidential elections since 1988.

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9VRQ TIL that Mao ordered billions of sparrows to be killed, this exacerbated a famine that killed more 20 million people.
MeGLa TIL Billie Eilish was born into the entertainment industry. She grew up in Los Angeles with both her parents being successful actors and her older brother already being in the music industry. She joined the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus at 8, and her brother wrote her debut song for her at 13.
OGZDX TIL to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book, a famous medieval manuscript that extensively documented British properties, BBC made a crowdsourced comprehensive data set on the UK, with the goal of preserving the way of life at the time. They then put it on Laserdisc.
9YN5m TIL in 2004, two Brazillians were arrested in Miami International, after one, asked about his air pump, said that he was carrying a “bomba” (Portugese for “pump”). This, complete with an “it might explode” comment from the other Brazilian, led to both being imprisoned.
PwGV TIL that through the process of grafting (splicing trees together by hand), you can grow multiple kinds of fruit on the same tree. These trees are called ‘fruit salad trees’.