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TIL there is an actual Pound Town

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J17v4 TIL it takes around 20 minutes to preheat an oven.
4Z0o TIL the company that created the successful series of 80’s/90’s educational PC games such as Reader Rabbit and Treasure Mountain was bought by Mattel in 1999 at a $4.2 billion evaluation. In 2000, it was sold at a loss of up to $3.6 billion, cited as one of the worst acquisitions of all time.
oRlnR TIL that Casanova, famous for seducing women, was a librarian
KOBw6 TIL about Dr. Rodney Marks, an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The cause of the fatal methanol poisoning has never been determined. Forty-nine other people were at the base at the time of Marks' death.
rvKw TIL that if you loose a tooth but can put it back in it’s socket within 20 minutes, there’s an extremely high chance that the roots will heal themselves.