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TIL that 35% of British adults sleep with a stuffed bear toy.

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JMLv TIL Actor James Stewart was also a poet. Once, while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, he read a poem called “Beau” that he had written about his dog. By the end, Carson had started crying.
wLQ81 TIL in 1749 a stage show was advertised a where a man would squeeze his body into a wine bottle. It was a bet between the Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield that they could advertise something impossible and get fools to pay for it. The sold out theatre rioted when no performer showed up.
Q54L TIL on Wall Street at noon in 1920 a horse drawn carriage loaded with explosive went off killing 38 people and injuring hundreds. Never solved it was expected to have been Italian Anarchists
4XoJN TIL of Mettigel, a German dish prepared by garnishing raw pork to look like a hedgehog.
NX0xM TIL that Tina Turner was so famous in Australia that she has an official dance to one of her songs "Nutbush City Limits" (the nutbush) and they filmed her singing on the Sydney Harbour Bridge!!!