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TIL This Is Spinal Tap is scored out off 11 on IMDB

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RxPl TIL Animal Planet aired a mockumentary called “Mermaid: The Body Found.” The two-hour program was so convincing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was overwhelmed by callers demanding the truth about the existence of the legendary sea creatures.
7JlM TIL A Russian company won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for developing a method to turn military explosives into nanodiamonds. These nanodiamonds can be used as light beacons for cancer treatment.
MeJo7 TIL Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has a gay son
d8B8Z TIL President Theodore Roosevelt was such a loud snorer that during his hospital stays he had a whole floor to himself so the other patients could sleep
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.