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TIL after The Wizard of Oz, 40 books were written that are "canon" to the land of Oz, plus many others

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70OX TIL taser is an acronym (Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle)
0GjR TIL: The Georgia Guidestones were produced by an unknown person. The Guidestones offer the world advice on how to maintain the human race.
Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
Z81yG TIL actor Jim Carrey wrote a fictitious autobiography that includes Chinese conspiracies, faking versions of celebrities, hallucinogenic dialogues, battling aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and dressing up before going to bed as he’s afraid of selfies taken at the morgue if he dies in his sleep.
ne4xr TIL that one of the New York Mafia families’ rules is that the members aren’t allowed to grow facial hair.