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TIL This Is Spinal Tap is scored out off 11 on IMDB
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TIL Kim Jong-Il once rounded up all the short people in Pyongyang and sent them away to uninhabited islands “to end their ‘substandard’ genes from repeating in a new generation”.
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TIL In 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing “minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which…enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.” The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.
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TIL Katy perry has a cat named kitty purry.
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TIL the name of Ishi, known as the 'last wild indian' is an adopted name. In the Yahi culture, he one cannot speak his own name until introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me"
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TIL that the Black Mamba snake, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world, contains pain-relieving compounds called mambalgins which could be a better painkiller (and with less side effects) than morphine.