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TIL Philadelphia cream cheese was created in New York

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nWrnP Today I learned that Pat Buttram (the guy who voiced Napoleon in "The Aristocats" and the Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin Hood") was a staunch Republican who often helped Ronald Reagan with his speeches.
ANOBg TIL mushrooms can talk to each other. And they hate Mario
ney4b TIL that two men led a team of 80 people to collect over 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milk them for their silk, and create the rarest textile on earth: a golden silk cape
8axWG TIL Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance design supervisor Toby Froud was the baby in the Jim Henson movie, Labyrinth!
6rXY TIL Japanese uses a large number of wasei-eigo, or English-based invented words and phrases that don’t exist in English, such as “cherry boy” for a male virgin, “virgin road” for the wedding aisle, “skin-ship” for physical intimacy, and “year of the coach” for Coach of the Year.